AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS (COLORED VINYL)After becoming the darlings of alt rock with their two consecutive neo psychedelic epics, THE SOFT BULLETIN and YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS, the Flaming Lips reign in their sound without diminishing their ambitions on AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS. They haven't thrown out their LSD soaked playbook entirely there are still some nods to MEDDLE era Pink Floyd here and there but on the whole the Lips have tightened up their sound and given it a groove