- rock, neo-psychedelia
- 56 min
- 14 tracks
At War with the Mystics is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on April 3, 2006, by Warner Bros. Records. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than the band's previous two albums The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002).
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Character-led, grave, open-ended and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 76/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent5/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork6.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- SpinB+
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Tracks
- 1The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (instrumental)5:22
- 2Free Radicals (instrumental)3:38
- 3The Sound of Failure (instrumental)5:22
- 4It’s Dark (instrumental)2:07
- 5My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (instrumental)4:57
- 6Vein of Stars (instrumental)4:15
- 7The Wizard Turns On… (instrumental)3:45
- 8It Overtakes Me (instrumental)3:14
- 9The Stars Are So Big (instrumental)3:58
- 10Mr. Ambulance Driver (instrumental)4:21
- 11Haven’t Got a Clue (instrumental)3:23
- 12The W.A.N.D. (instrumental)3:45
- 13Pompeii am Götterdämmerung (instrumental)4:23
- 14Goin’ On (instrumental)3:37
14 tracks, 56 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Flaming Lips
- Released
- 2006
- Type
- Album
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