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Three months after the release of their classic album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, the Flaming Lips played a small show at The Paradise Lounge in Boston for the local alternative radio station WBOS. The small crowd of competition winners and invited fans were treated to a 40 minute set that included “Do You Realize??” and “Fight Test”, plus covers of Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” and Beck’s “The Golden Age”. One feature of this show were the song intros by Wayne Coyne.This is the first release on vinyl and it’s on limited edition pink!

This expansive 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features 100 tracks on the 6 CD Box Set of which over 50 are previously unreleased.

The 5 LP, 56 track Vinyl box features 30 previously unreleased tracks and over 40 tracks being released on vinyl for the first time. Both formats include the original album, demos, b-sides, and highlights of the many radio sessions the band performed.

The 6 CD box also includes the two EPs released during the original album cycle and two live concerts from Boston in 2002 and London in 2003. The EPs and live concerts will be released on vinyl in 2023. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is an essential portrait of rock’s most restlessly creative band at the peak of their powers. 

TRACK LISTING

LP 1 -Original Album
Side A
1.Fight Test
2.One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1
4.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2
5.In The Morning Of The Magicians
Side B
1.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
2.Are You A Hypnotist
3.It's Summertime
4.Do You Realize??
5.All We Have Is Now
6.Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon

LP 2 -Demos+
Side C
1.All My Life -Morning Of The Magicians
2.Ego Tripping Part 2 Or 3
3.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
4.Hypnotist: Early Version
5.Epic Systems Delirium
6.In The Morning Of The Magicians
Side D
1.Do You Realize?? 1st Chords Wayne
2.Do You Realize?? Steven New Part
3.Fight Test: Primitive Demo With Helium Voice
4.If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head
5.Syrtis Major

LP 3 -Non-LP+
Side E
1.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Version)
2.SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy
3.Seven Nation Army
4.Go (Feat Sparklehorse)
5.The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response
6.Fight Test
Side F
1.Do You Realize??
2.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3.Waitin' For A Superman
4.In The Morning Of The Magicians
5.White Christmas
6.The Golden Path (The Chemical Brothers, Feat The Flaming Lips)

LP 4 -Radio Sessions
Side G
1.Suspicious Minds
2.Assassination Of The Sun
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4.Do You Realize??
5.One More Robot
Side H
1.Do You Realize??
2.One More Robot
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
5.Breathe
6.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
7.Sunship Balloons

LP 5 -Radio Sessions+
Side I
1.Fight Test
2.Thank You Jack White
3.Do You Realize??
4.One More Robot
5.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Side J
1.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
2.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3.SunshipBalloons
4.Up Above The Daily Hum
5.Xanthe Terra

CD Box Set Edition:
CD 1: Original Album, Plus Demos
1.Fight Test
2.One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3.Yoshimi Battles ThePink Robots Part 1
4.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 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
12.All My Life -Morning Of The Magicians
13.Ego Tripping Part 2 Or 3
14.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
15.Hypnotist: Early Version
16.Epic Systems Delirium
17.In The Morning Of The Magicians
18.Do You Realize?? (1st Chords Wayne)
19.Do You Realize?? (Steven New Part)

CD 2 -Fight Test And Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell Eps
1.Fight Test
2.Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Live)
3.The Golden Age (Live)
4.Knives Out (Live)
5.Do You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Remix)
6.The Strange Design Of Conscience
7.Thank You Jack White
8.Assassination Of The Sun
9.I'm A Fly In A Sunbeam (Following The Funeral Procession Of A Stranger)
10.Sunship Balloons
11.Do You Realize??
12.Ego Tripping (Ego In Acceleration)
13.Ego Tripping (Self Admiration With Blow-up Mix
14.A Change At Christmas
15.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell (Utah Saints Remix)

CD 3 -Non-LP+
1.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Version)
2.SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy
3.Seven Nation Army
4.Go (Feat Sparklehorse)
5.Do You Realize??
6.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
7.Waitin' For A Superman
8.In TheMorning Of The Magicians
9.White Christmas
10.The Golden Path (The Chemical Brothers, Feat. The Flaming Lips)
11.If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head
12.Syrtis Major
13.Up Above The Daily Hum
14.Xanthe Terra
15.The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response
16.Fight Test
17.Duck Dodgers Theme (Wayne Scratch Vocal)
18.I Know I’ve Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (demo)
19.Do You Realize?? (Instrumental)
20.Fight Test: Primitive Demo With Helium Voice

CD 4 -Radio Sessions
1.Suspicious Minds
2.Assassination Of The Sun
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4.Do You Realize??
5.One More Robot
6.Do You Realize??
7.One More Robot
8.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
9.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10.Do You Realize??
11.One More Robot
12.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
13.Fight Test
14.Thank You Jack White
15.Breathe
16.Ego Tripping AtThe Gates Of Hell
17.Sunship Balloons
18.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
19.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots20.Sunship Balloons

CD 5 -Live 2002+: Radio Broadcast WBOS (Live At The Paradise Lounge, Boston), Plus Yoshimi Demo
1.Introduction (David O'Leary)
2.The Golden Age
3.Wayne Rap 1
4.Lucifer Sam
5.Wayne Rap 2
6.Do You Realize??
7.Wayne Rap 3
8.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
9.Wayne Rap 4
10.Wayner Talking Over Beginnng Of Fight Test
11.Fight Test
12.Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream"

CD 6 -Live 2003: Radio Broadcast BBC (Live At The Forum, London, UK)
1. Introduction
2. Race For The Prize
3. Fight Test
4. Lucifer Sam
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
6. Lightning Strikes The Postman
7. In The Morning Of The Magicians
8. Happy Birthdays
9. She Don't Use Jelly
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Do You Realize??
12. Waitin' For A Superman
13. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
14. What Is The Light?
15. The Observer

Battles, New York City’s preeminent experimental rock duo, drop a slick 12” of remixes from DJ Dairy & DJ Orient (black midi), Delroy Edwards, Shed, and DJ Nigga Fox.  The release sees the aforementioned artists using an array of sounds from across the spectrum of Battles’ latest LP "Juice B Crypts", released late last year. In utilizing the wide array of sounds, the remixers have created work that is not singularly indebted to one song or another, rather inspired by the sonic world of the album and serving as an extension of it. The remixers have utilized this creative freedom to the fullest, delivering a collection of songs that occupy distinctly different spaces of the electronic music landscape while retaining a shared connectivity to the original work. 4 uniquely individual remixes, remixing one of the uniquely individual bands of the new millennium, tied together by experimental spirit and a shared musical perspective. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: One of Warp's highly celebrated acts of late hauls in an imperative who's who of electronic music talent. A hype-list rightly deserved of their cult statuses - not a single one disappoints.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Stirling Bridge (DJ Dairy & DJ Orient (black Midi) Remix)
A2. IZM (Shed Remix)
B1. Juice B Crypts (Delroy Edwards Remix)
B2. Carnaval Supremo (DJ Nigga Fox Remix)

“Daily Battles” was written by Thom Yorke (Radiohead, Atoms For Peace) for “Motherless Brooklyn” the film directed, written by, produced by and starring Edward Norton. The film features two versions of the song, each performed by musical icons of modern music. Thom Yorke along with Flea (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Atoms For Peace) performs a sparse and emotionally stunning version of the song. The other version of “Daily Battles” was arranged and performed by jazz trumpet icon Wynton Marsalis, who, along with his hand-picked quintet of heavy-hitter-jazz-stalwarts delivers an instant jazz standard version of the song that conjures images of the 1950’s-era gin-soaked Harlem jazz club seen in the film.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Daily Battles

Side B:
1. Daily Battles (feat. Joe Farnsworth, Russell Hall, Isaiah J. Thompson & Jerry Weldon)

Battles return with their fourth album "Juice B Crypts" on Warp Records to follow their complex, mind-bending predecessors "Mirrored", "Gloss Drop, Dross Glop" and "La Di Da Di". Their latest album is a sensory overload of information that throws everything you thought you knew about Battles into flux once again. John Stanier's percussive power drives the LP through motorik, jazz and post rock, while the cubist keyboard and guitar melodies of Ian Williams capture the fractal pop majesty the group have made their own over the past decade or so.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: While Battles' previous outing definitely tread more through the math rock spectrum, and sometimes suffered cohesion losses through it's jagged momentum, 'Juice B Crypts'leans slightly more towards the free-jazz end of things, with loungey grooves and deep rolling basses keeping a solid backline behind their characteristic madness.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ambulance
A2. A Loop So Nice...
A3. They Played It Twice (featuring Xenia Rubinos)
B1. Sugar Foot (featuring Jon Anderson And Prairie WWWW)
B2. Fort Greene Park
C1. Titanium 2 Step (featuring Sal Principato)
C2. Hiro 3
C3. Izm (featuring Shabazz Palaces)
D1. Juice B Crypts
D2. The Last Supper On Shasta (featuring Tune-Yards)

Fourth studio album, originally released in April 2008. This reissue of ‘Mountain Battles’ includes 12” size, 28 page booklet.

TRACK LISTING

Overglazed
Bang On
Night Of Joy
We're Gonna Rise
German Studies
Spark
Istanbul
Walk It Off
Regalame Esta Noche
Here No More
No Way
It's The Love
Mountain Battles

New York six-legged rhythmic juggernaut Battles are one of the most exciting and respected alternative bands of recent years and they return with their second album ‘Gloss Drop’.

The album ranges from lead track ‘Ice Cream’, a “grunty, squelchy, jubilant freakout” according to the NME, and Radio 1’s The Hottest Record In The World - a calypso tinged rhythmic juggernaut powering through the airwaves of Radio 1, XFM and 6Music, through to denser, more industrial tracks (‘My Machines’, featuring Gary Numan, is a prime example) – at times playful, at times hard-edged, but always unmistakably Battles.

Outgoing member Tyondai Braxton’s vocals have made way for a host of guest vocalists, ranging from Numan to Kazu from Blonde Redhead and Eye from Boredoms.

TRACK LISTING

Africastle
Ice Cream (ft Matias Aguayo)
Futura
Inchworm
Wall Street
My Machines (ft Gary Numan)
Dominican Fade
Sweetie & Shag (ft Kazu Makino)
Toddler
Rolls Bayce
White Electric
Sundome (ft EYE)

Following on from Warp's release of Battles "EP C/B" EP collection comes the New York quartet's debut album proper. Featuring members of Don Caballero and Helmet, the band create a sound that combines avant-rock, jazz and electronica, reminiscent of the abandonment of their NY no wave predecessors. Utilising prog-style time changes, the treated vocals of Tyondai Braxton, almost tribal drumming and synth distortion, the music teeters on the edge before being reined back in at the last moment. Battles are gods, superheroes sent to save us from musical mediocrity and "Mirrored" is a colossal masterpiece begging to join your record collection.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Arguably Battles' finest moment, Mirrors returns for a hugely awaited reissue on Warp records. Pitch-shifted vocals, syncopated drums, clangy guitar and obtuse time-signatures combine to create a surprisingly cohesive whole. Experimental but melodic, quirky and intricate. Art-rock meets math-rock (arth-rock?). Fantastic.

TRACK LISTING

Race : In
Atlas
Ddiamondd
Tonto
Leyendecker
Rainbow
Bad Trails
Prismism
Snare Hangar
Tij
Race : Out

‘La Di Da Di’ is a bold opus of post rock and virtuosic instrumentals, cementing Battles firmly amongst the most influential alternative bands of the 21st century.

On their third album the rhythmic core of Battles is as full as ever. Opener ‘The Yabba’ is a gradual unravelling of math rock motifs that eventually explodes into the glitchladen ‘Dot Net’.

The atypical ‘breather’ moment that comes with ‘Cacio e Pepe’ is an exploration in harmony anchored by Battles’ characteristic repetition, whilst tracks like ‘FF Bada’ and ‘Summer Simmer’ are examples of the thick textural richness that can be found throughout the album. ‘La Di Da Di’ humbly parades the many weapons of Battles’ musicianship for which they are so well revered.

Battles follow a spectacular 2011, which saw the release of their acclaimed second album ‘Gloss Drop’, with a series of very special remix releases in 2012.

The series, titled ‘Dross Glop’, begins with a limited 12” featuring remixes of Battles tracks from Kompakt favourites Gui Boratto and The Field.

The entire series of tracks will be compiled and released later in the year as a CD album.

Oh joy. It's just as inventive, creative, unpredictable, refreshing and downright beautiful as "The Soft Bulletin". But! Hooray, it's poppier. It loses nothing but gains everything! (Also including a chunkier, tastier bottom end). It's so hard to review - it's just absolutely BRILLIANT. To put on your headphones and play and play and play again. All summer! Forever!!