The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Following up the career and indeed decade defining Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips pushed the kaleidoscopic envelope of ideas and sound further still with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, remarkably their tenth LP. While Yoshimi is fundamentally about death and the finality of death, it's a joyful listen and contains hands down the greatest song about our mortality, 'Do You Realise'. It was the moment when experimental turned sentimental. Seven years on and approaching their fourth decade together, Wayne Coyne and co. are showing no signs of slowing down. (Stephen Mooney)