28-04-2025
The Flaming Lips review — five-star show from the Oklahoma surrealists
★★★★★As much fun as the mad professor was having — darting between the legs of three gigantic inflatable pink robots, flinging out man-sized balloons and firing off streamer guns amid flumes of confetti — he did spare a thought for the more baffled at the Brixton Academy in London. 'If you didn't know what you were in for, you're probably thinking, 'What the f*** is going on?'' said Wayne Coyne, introducing a full run through the Flaming Lips' celebrated 2002 space pop opus Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, in which a black belt Japanese office worker fights off an invasion of man-eating hellbots.
It's among the Lips' best-loved albums thanks to its folding of pop hooks, folk textures and mainstream electronics into their
