At War With the Mystics 6LP

At War with the Mystics was the Flaming Lips' eleventh album, cut between 2004 and 2006 at Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios with Fridmann producing alongside the band and Scott Booker, pushing the group toward a harder, more guitar-driven, more political sound than The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It picked up Grammys for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Twenty years on, the anniversary box answers the original's restraint with excess: 76 tracks across six LPs, stuffed with remasters, demos, live sessions, and alternate mixes.