Immersing listeners deeper into a living and breathing otherworld, GRAMMY Award-winning alternative luminaries The Flaming Lips will unveil Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Blu-Ray Edition) on November 1, 2024. The Atmos mixes of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots as well as 2020’s American Head, are available to stream now on participating digital platforms.
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” & “Fight Test” available to watch in HD leading up to release.
The Flaming Lips initially unveiled Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on July 16, 2002. It went on to emerge as 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)” garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Rock Instrumental Performance.” 22 years later since its arrival, signature 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, as always, by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips and is comprised of thirteen 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 October 12, 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.
Formed in Oklahoma City, OK in 1983, The Flaming Lips have since become one of the most iconic, influential, unpredictable, and vital forces in American alternative rock music. The band has garnered three GRAMMY Awards, a Tony nomination, and an RIAA Gold-certified Record for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Q Magazine named them one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die.” The band has made countless late-night television appearances, appeared in a Super Bowl commercial, contributed to many film soundtracks, and collaborated with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Kacey Musgraves, Yoko Ono, The Chemical Brothers, and many more. Most recently, The LIPS have recorded an album of Nick Cave covers featuring vocalist Nell Smith called “Where The Viaduct Blooms.” They have set countless records, broken attendance records, have a hometown street named in their honor, created spectacular interactive audio/visual events now regarded as legendary. Frontman Wayne Coyne has been recognized for works of art that graced many LIPS album covers along with his traveling art exhibit (and subsequent album) “The King’s Mouth,” an audiovisual art installation that has been featured in many contemporary art museums around the US. Their latest LP, American Head, marks a return to a more melodic and song-oriented body of work and has critically been lauded as their best work in years, placing on several “Year End/Best Of lists” around the world. Even after a combination of 23 studio recordings, 16 singles, 11 compilations, 12 EPs and 11 self-released experimental collaborative oddities released in various forms,quantities and unique mediums, The Flaming Lips remain in a creative apex that has no bounds. To that end, they have become an American Treasure and created a genre all to themselves.
TRACKLISTING:
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)
YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS DIGITAL ALBUM (ATMOS)
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)
AMERICAN HEAD DIGITAL ALBUM (ATMOS)
1. Will You Return / When You Come Down
2. Watching the Lightbugs Glow
3. Flowers of Neptune 6
4. Dinosaurs on the Mountain
5. At the Movies on Quaaludes
6. Mother I’ve Taken LSD
7. Brother Eye
8. You n Me Sellin’ Weed
9. Mother Please Don’t Be Sad
10. When We Die When We’re High
11. Assassins of Youth
12. God and the Policeman (featuring Kacey Musgraves)
13. My Religion Is You
The Flaming Lips On Tour 2024/2025:
*Indicates date with With Weezer
Sep 17 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena*
Sep 18 Greenville, SC Bon Secours Wellness Arena*
Sep 20 Orlando, FL Kia Center*
Sep 21 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino*
Sep 27 Austin, TX Moody Center*
Sep 28 Houston, TX Toyota Center*
Sep 29 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center*
Oct 01 Loveland, CO Blue Fcu Arena*
Oct 04 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena*
Oct 05 Vancouver, BC, Rogers Arena*
Oct 06 Portland, OR Moda Center*
Oct 08 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center*
Oct 09 San Francisco, CA Chase Center*
Oct 11 Inglewood, CA Intuit Dome*
Oct 12 Palm Desert, CA Acrisure Arena at Greater Palm Springs*
Feb 1 West Melbourne, VIC, Australia at Festival Hall Melbourne
Feb 5 Brisbane, QLD, Australia at The Fortitude Music Hall
April 25 Birmingham, UK at O2 Academy Birmingham
April 26 London, UK at O2 Academy Brixton
April 28 Dublin, Ireland at 3Olympia Theatre
April 29 Dublin, Ireland at 3Olympia Theatre
May 1 Edinburgh, UK at Usher Hall
May 2 Leeds, UK at O2 Academy Leeds
May 4 Manchester, UK at O2 Apollo Manchester
May 5 Bristol, UK at Beacon Hall, Bristol Beacon
May 30 Borgerhout, Belgium at DE ROMA
May 31 Paris, France at Le Trianon
June 2 Utrecht, Netherlands at TivioliVredenburg
June 4 Cologne, German at E-Werk Köln
June 5 Berlin, German at TEMPODROM
June 8 Copenhagen, Denmark at VEGA – Musikkens Hus, Store Vega
