{"id":6906,"date":"2014-02-27T06:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:09:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:09:46","slug":"cdflaminglips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdflaminglips\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Flaming Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flami.jpg\" alt=\"flami\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Flaming Lips<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Warner Brothers)<\/h4>\n<p>The Flaming Lips have achieved \u0093can do no wrong\u0094 status in most critics minds and I suppose they\u0092&#8217;ve come damn close to earning it for being around as long as they have, putting as many crazy albums as they have (several of their most extreme on a very major major label) and just being themselves to a T. \u00a0Their latest release still finds them doing everything they do best, but a little less of it. \u00a0If someone would have told me this was a kind of trip-hop remix of their new album and not the album itself, I would have<br \/>\nbelieved them. \u00a0Aside from the vocals and the frequently digitally-altered acoustic guitars, \u0093Yoshimi\u0094 mostly consists of laid-back electro-pop programming and \u0093studio as main instrument\u0094 kind of production.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons to recent Radiohead albums are inevitable and perhaps merited, but the Flaming Lips can and will do whatever they want, despite peoples expectations. \u00a0While not a masterpiece (which is what everyone practically demands of them from now on) overall it is an appealing listen that surpasses the work of many of their indie-pop peers and all of their followers. \u00a0It\u0092s sort of like eating hallucinogenic cotton candy you\u0092d buy<br \/>\nat some other-worldly Hello Kitty store where you can&#8217;\u0092t, and may not want to, find the exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flaming Lips &#8220;\u0093Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\u0094&#8221; (Warner Brothers) The Flaming Lips have achieved \u0093can do no wrong\u0094 status in most critics minds and I suppose they\u0092&#8217;ve come damn close to earning it for being around as long as they have, putting as many crazy albums as they have (several of their most extreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3613,7364,8304],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}