The Flaming Lips Announce ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ Blu-Ray Edition
The Flaming Lips will release a Blu-Ray edition of their 2002 classic album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on 1 November 2024. The band have also shared new Atmos mixes of Yoshimi and their 2020 album, American Head, both of which are available to stream now.
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This marks the first release of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on Blu-Ray in Dolby ATMOS mixed by Dave Fridmann & Atmos engineering & mastering by Jon Fridmann, DTS-HD 5.1 Mix mixed by Dave Fridmann & Elliot Scheiner, and DTS-HD 2.0 Hi-Res Stereo mixes by Dave Fridmann. The package insert also includes an excerpt from an interview by Wayne Coyne with Jon and Dave Fridmann, discussing the Atmos mixing and listening experience.
The Blu-Ray also notably boasts animated visualizer Bleep Blops and four newly remastered music videos — Fight Test, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt 1, Are You A Hypnotist??, and both versions of Do You Realize??. All music videos will also be upgraded on digital platforms, with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1 and Fight Test available to watch in HD leading up to release.
The Flaming Lips released Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on 16 July 2002. It went on to become their biggest-selling album so far and earn a Gold certification from the RIAA. Indicative of the record’s impact, the epic closer Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Over two decades later, classics such as Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell and Do You Realize?? remain staples in concert and on streaming platforms.
American Head was produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips and is comprised of 13 cinematic tracks. Among them, God And The Policeman, featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kacey Musgraves.
The band is currently on the Voyage to a Blue Planet Tour with Weezer across the US through to 12 October 2024. They will then pick back up with continued dates performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in its entirety in Australia, the UK, Europe & Asia in 2025.
YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS (BLU-RAY)
AUDIO
DOLBY ATMOS, DTS-HD 5.1 SURROUND & DTS-HD 2.0 STEREO MIXES
1. Fight Test
2. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1
4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2
5. In the Morning Of The Magicians
6. Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell
7. Are You A Hypnotist??
8. It’s Summertime
9. Do You Realize??
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
MUSIC VIDEOS
1. Fight Test
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
3. Are You A Hypnotist??
4. Do You Realize??
5. Do You Realize?? (Mark Pellington Version)