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- Summary: Dave Fridmann returns as producer for the ever-weird, Wayne Coyne-led band's first release in four years.
- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Free Radicals | |
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You think you're so radical I think you oughta stop (Say what) But you're going international They're gonna call the cops (No, no, no) You're... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 30 out of 37
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Mixed: 6 out of 37
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Negative: 1 out of 37
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Tak[es] on the state of global affairs in a way that is both surprisingly direct yet somehow reassuringly weird.
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What makes At War With the Mystics different is spontaneity -- and not spontaneity in a jazz sense. Listening to this album you get the feeling that absolutely anything could happen -- as if it's taking final form only as it reverberates off your eardrums.
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While Wayne Coyne has been carving out and presenting to the world the manifestations of his crazy mind for an age now, the possibilities have so often been superior to the finished article. That is certainly not the case here.
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A wonderful record that is flawed - that'll be those flatulent synths again - but by design.
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At War with the Mystics is as accessibly odd as Yoshimi but more scattered and darker.
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The way that Mystics bounces back and forth between its ethereal and zany moments gives it a disjointed, uneven feel that makes the album a shade less satisfying than either Yoshimi or Soft Bulletin.
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Those farty sounds and the guy with the deeeeeeeeeep voice on "It Overtakes Me" are called "bells and whistles." That's what bands do when they don't have anything to say.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 74 out of 101
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Mixed: 19 out of 101
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Negative: 8 out of 101
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Feb 7, 2013
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coyApr 3, 2006Best Flamin Lips record, defnitely! Even bether than Soft Bulletin.
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mikaellApr 12, 2006
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ChrisCApr 5, 2006This album has a lot of great tracks on it. But nothing as great as the best from their two previous albums, and it has little or no musical focus.
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TomPFeb 2, 2008
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Jan 4, 2014
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JonnyFreshNoneApr 29, 2006
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