The Flaming Lips Announce Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Blu-Ray Release

Grammy Award-winning alternative rock band The Flaming Lips will unveil Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Blu-Ray Edition) on November 1.

This marks the first release of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on Blu-Ray in Dolby ATMOS, DTS-HD 5.1 Mix, and DTS-HD 2.0 Hi-Res Stereo mixes. The package insert also includes an excerpt from an interview by Wayne Coyne with Jon and Dave Fridmann. The interview explores the Atmos mixing and listening experience.

The Blu-Ray also 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??"

The Flaming Lips initially unveiled Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots on July 16, 2002. It went on to emerge as their biggest-selling album and earn a Gold certification from the RIAA. The epic closer "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" won a Grammy in the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Remastered Tracks and Video

The Atmos mixes of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots as well as 2020's American Head are also available to stream now on participating digital platforms. The digital platforms include both the Atmos mixes and the newly remastered music videos.

Tour Dates and Legacy

The band is currently on the Voyage to a Blue Planet Tour with Weezer across the U.S. through October 12. They will then perform Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in its entirety in Australia, the U.K., Europe and 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.

Remastering of the Album

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.