…features the full original album remastered for the first time, as well as 19 previously unreleased demo tracks, 14 previously unreleased studio recordings, and a further 42 non-album cuts. The audio recordings of 2007 live film ‘U.F.O.s at The Zoo’ and a concert at The Hollywood Bowl will also be included.
Since 1999’s The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips have issued an album once every three or four years — roughly once per presidential term, making At War with the Mystics the second album they’ve made during George W. Bush’s presidency. While Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots‘ themes of seizing the moment and accepting mortality could easily be read as a reaction to 9/11, At War with the Mystics is a more overtly timely album…

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