At War with the Mystics is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on April 3, 2006, by Warner Bros. Records. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than the band's previous two albums The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002). It is the group's first album featuring contributions from drummer Kliph Scurlock despite not being credited alongside the rest of the band until the following album, Embryonic.
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- 1The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)4:51
- 2Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber)3:41
- 3The Sound of Failure / It’s Dark… Is It Always This Dark??7:18
- 4My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)4:51
- 5Vein of Stars4:15
- 6The Wizard Turns On… The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins3:41
- 7It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big… I Am So Small… Do I Stand a Chance?6:50
- 8Mr. Ambulance Driver4:21
- 9Haven’t Got a Clue3:25
- 10The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)3:42
- 11Pompeii am Götterdämmerung4:21
- 12Goin’ On3:39
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