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This is what made the band’s 2004 release, “At War With The Mystics,” such a frustrating album. Anyone familiar with the band’s two previous albums—“The Soft Bulletin?? and 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”—will be able to point to the myriad recycle tropes that propped that record up. “Mystics” attempts to craft simpler, theoretically catchier—and typically somewhat monotonous?...
...through which comparisons to earlier material can be made. The sheer level of studio precision involved in crafting these songs—feedback and percussion loops, vocal layering, electronic flourishes—can’t escape a comparison to the techniques that brought “The Soft Bulletin?? to life. But the relationship between the two records is almost totally inverted: while “The Soft Bulletin?? brought a cinematic—at times even an operatic—sensibility to its structure, emphasizing the individual track as an autonomous episode within...
...their most accessible works to date. This is due in large part to the fact that “Mystics” boasts some undeniably catchy tunes. The Lips have retained the lush electronic orchestration they experimented with on their most recent albums, “The Soft Bulletin?? and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” but this time they’ve married it to pop grooves that hook harder than most of their previous outings. There’s always been a hint of nostalgia to the Lips’ psychedelic...
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