![]() We had become a seven-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as 'AN AMERICAN BAND'… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. not really caring WHERE we were actually from. for most of our musical life we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from 'Earth'. Vocalist Wayne Coyne says of the album in a statement, "So. It's produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann, and sees Kacey Musgraves contribute backing vocals to three tracks - " Flowers of Neptune 6", "Watching the Lightbugs Glow" and "God and the Policeman". ![]() In 2020, to promote their new album American Head and in their own typically playful take on social distancing, the Lips took to performing in inflatable plastic bubbles.Īmerican Head, the band’s sixteenth studio album, was released in September 2020 to critical acclaim, appropriately featuring the cosmic country star Kacey Musgraves as its heady Americana underpinned Coyne’s reflections on growing up in Oklahoma."Will You Return / When You Come Down" is the fifth track to be lifted from American Head, after previous outings " You n Me Sellin' Weed", " Dinosaurs On The Mountain", " My Religion Is You", and " Flowers of Neptune 6".Īmerican Head will follow on from last year's King's Mouth album. Just like their surreal and esoteric song titles (and indeed band name), the Lips developed a striking visual identity alongside their music that came to life on their cover art, music videos and live tours, all swathed in kaleidoscopic colours and punctuated by on-stage U.F.Os, giant, laser-shooting hands and neon unicorns. 2019’s dreamlike King’s Mouth even included spoken passages from The Clash’s Mick Jones. developed a newfound taste for collaboration, working with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Moby, Foxygen and Bon Iver. At the end of the year, together with Henry Rollins and Peaches, they released a cover album of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon. In 2009, Yoshimi's grand, existential peak “Do You Realize?” became the official rock song of their home state, Oklahoma, but it was the double-album Embryonic that stole the attention that year, with its scuzzy, head-nodding grit and looming ominous tone. ![]() Nothing short of a pop wonderland, the record was their most melodic and accessible to date, but also their most ambitious in production, propelling them into the cosmos for the sci-fi psychedelia of 2002’s Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, which would become their first Gold-certified album. The early 90s saw more coming-and-goings of members as the band signed to Warner for their major label debut Hit To Death In The Future Head, which ushered in a new era of sound for the band, defined by a tapestry of textures, Beatles-esque string orchestration and expansive, oddball noise-pop that culminated in their turn-of-the-millenium breakthrough, The Soft Bulletin. Their debut was followed by a string of releases that had a raw and reckless punk edge to them, although no Lips album can ever really be easily pigeon-holed. ![]() Punk-rock looks and left-field ideas were more important to these youthful, self-proclaimed “Fearless Freaks” from Oklahoma City, but decades on and many line-up changes later, the band have become one of the most influential and respected experimental rock acts of their generation.Īfter Mark’s early departure, Wayne stepped forward on vocal duties and became the band’s de facto ringleader – his salt and pepper curls have since become synonymous with the band – and, with drummer Richard English, released their debut studio album Hear It Is in 1986. In many ways The Flaming Lips’ chaotic but nevertheless unwavering devotion to bold, artistic expression can be traced to their formation in 1983, when brothers Wayne and Mark Coyne invited Michael Ivins to join a new musical project as their bassist – despite their friend having no apparent experience playing the instrument. Irreverent psych-rockers The Flaming Lips return to the UK and Ireland in May 2022, celebrating the 2020 release of their 16th album American Head, plus four decades of dazzling and maximalist prog-pop flamboyance.
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