April 4, 2006 at 10:05PM “At War with the Mystics”: disappointment or grower?
The Saturday I was coming back from the first night of Electronic Renaissance (plug! plug!), I dropped into Zhivago to pick up a copy of At War with the Mystics by The Flaming Lips.
Boy, was I disappointed.
Usually with a FLips album, the songs stick with you after the first listening. I’ve been playing it since then and not a single song sticks in my head longer than five minutes after I’ve played it. It’s an album without even one song I could point to and say it stands on its own. That’s fine if you’re the kind of band that produces music to play in the background. The FLips are not that kind of band. See where I’m going?
Now, I really like the FLips, so I’m hoping this is one of those albums that doesn’t blind you with its brilliance, preferring a more, how can I put this, fungal approach.
I’ll give it another few goes and see what happens.