This sounds fantastic:
“Fight Test” includes three tracks from the scrapped EP, including an inspired take on Radiohead’s “Knives Out”, a workmanlike runthrough of Beck’s “The Golden Age”, and a dirge-like reading of Kylie Minogue’s disco inferno “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”.
The EP is rounded out by a nine-minute (!) remix of “Do You Realize??”– and yes, I would think after nine minutes most people will, indeed, realize– and two completely new tracks. The intriguingly titled “Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus You Gave Me)” reportedly includes the lyrics: “Jack and Meg are funny/ They’ve got a modern, backwards, liberal family code/ Brother and sister playin’ rock ‘n’ roll and doin’ it on the road/ I bet that van begin to stink/ But then I wonder/ Oh, what Christ would think.” (full story)
The Flaming Lips and Wilco continue to battle each other as to who can release more material faster. Who will win? Only one can survive.