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The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics

Paul Lester, Uncut, April 2006

THERE WAS SOMETHING so ultimate about the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, emphasized by its release in the last year of the 20th Century, you expected it to close with this paraphrase of Jean-Luc Godard: "End – End of Music."

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