The group’s release activity won’t falter after the arrival of the live LP. T he Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra is the successor to The Flaming Lips’ July release of their fifteenth studio album, King’s Mouth. Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessor's expansive sonic palette. The Flaming Lips’ ninth album, The Soft Bulletin debuted in 1999 and swiftly elicited acclaim among critics and the band’s substantial following alike. If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown - The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts.
No average appearance, the 2016 show date saw the group appear alongside a 68-piece orchestra and a choir comprised 57 singers. With a landing date of November 29, the live, longform outing offers listeners a chance to relive The Flaming Lips’ performance at Colorado’s Red Rocks Ampitheatre. It can slide comfortably next to “Bulletin” and “Yoshimi” as the third post-“Zaireeka” Lips album, but it’s also as playful as the earlier work and likely to be defined by its political themes.The Flaming Lips’ ever-expansive repertoire will broaden through the release of The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Getting political“At War with the Mystics,” however, is a little (just a little) more direct.
“It does come across a little bit absurd - we’re talking about ‘Don’t let the robots eat me,’ and all that - but within that, I think we feel that it’s really about one friend sticking up for another,” says Coyne, who describes the album as a “sunshiny, funeral-esque sort of thing.” “I just said, ‘ it, I’m just going to say it, and I’ll see if anyone’s behind me.’ And I said it, and I looked around, and everyone was behind me.”Įven more lined up behind the Lips after 2002’s “Yoshimi,” a similarly ambitious concept album that - given its cosmic metaphors - was a risky follow-up to the landmark “Bulletin.” It was the group’s most commercially successful album yet. “I think you hear me singing about, ‘What do I have to hide?”’ says Coyne.
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