The Flaming Lips on verge of finishing new album It's looking like early 2006
The Flaming Lips are on the verge of completing their new album.
The follow-up to 2002's 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' , titled 'At War With The Mystics' , is expected in early 2006.
And frontman Wayne Coyne has revealed the band are on schedule to get finished by the end of 2005.
He told XFM : "I think we have one more session that we're going to try to do in November and probably do a couple more songs and see how it's all fitting together."
He added: "But we've had a couple of good runs last couple of times we've been up at Dave 's [Fridmann - (the band's longtime producer) studio. We've stumbled upon some nice production ideas and got lucky with a couple of songs and it seems like something's shaping out. We even forget how we made a song or why we made and it's like 'Oh that's a good song, how did that happen?'
"With all of our records, I think we've made 12 or 13 of them now, I'm not really sure because we do so many singles and EPs and all these sorts of things, you kinda see as you go. You don't really know when the good stuff is going to happen, you just kind of have to be doing stuff and hope it turns out good and little by little. We kind of let some of it get out there and let people listen to it and we like getting some feedback. As ridiculous as that seems to go against the idea of an uncompromising artistic approach, you need some objective ideas need to be thrown your way once in a while because you get so caught up in your own world."
The band release a career-spanning video compilation DVD called 'VOID: 1992-2005' today (October 3).
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Kati Llewellyn and Amy Phillips report:
Over the holiday break, while the Flaming Lips were busy celebrating Christmas on Mars (or in Oklahoma-- whatever, same thing), they let slip a few juicy details about their highly-anticipated new album, At War With the Mystics.
At last, the disc has a release date. Or rather, two: April 3 in the UK and April 4 in the U.S. The first single, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", (reportedly inspired by the band's cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody") is due March 27 in the UK. What, you thought the States would get a single? Dream on. All we get is the digital release of "The W.A.N.D." on January 10 through iTunes, Rhapsody, and all the other usual suspects.
The Lips also announced a few UK tour dates in April, following their appearance at the Florida jamfest Langerado in March. Here's what's scheduled for now, with more to come soon:
03-11-12 Sunrise, FL - Markham Park (Langerado Music Festival) *
04-19 Edinburgh, Scotland - Usher Hall
04-22 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
04-24 Birmingham, England - Birmingham Academy
04-25 Manchester, England - Apollo
* with Wilco, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Secret Machines, Rjd2, bunch of hippie bands
Though War's final tracklist remains up in the air at this point, Billboard.com reports that "Space Bible" and "Time Travel??", in addition to the two previously mentioned songs, are expected to make it on to the album. Coyne explained to Billboad, "There are some tracks we've delved into production-wise, where we're trying to get some of that heavy rock'n'roll with heavy guitar riffs, but not just to be aggressive. On the last couple of records, we've tried to be more expressive in beautiful ways. But sometimes, volume and intensity are great too."
In the meantime, the 1999 F'Lips masterpiece The Soft Bulletin will be reissued on DVD on January 31. In addition to the full album, remastered in glorious Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 sound, the DVD will include a buttload of outtakes, radio sessions, and videos.
Tracklist:
The Soft Bulletin:
01 Race for the Prize
02 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
03 The Spark That Bled
04 Slow Motion
05 What Is the Light
06 The Observer
07 Waitin' for a Superman
08 Suddenly, Everything Has Changed
09 The Gash
10 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
11 Sleeping on the Roof
12 The Spiderbite Song
13 Buggin'
Album Outtakes:
01 1000ft Hands
02 The Captain
03 Satellite of You
Radio Sessions:
01 Up Above the Daily Hum
02 The Switch That Turns off the Universe
03 We Can't Predict the Future
04 Remained Unrealizable
Video Extras:
01 Race for the Prize
02 Waitin' for a Superman
The Flaming Lips website also reports that the first four Lips albums, 1986's Hear It Is, 1987's Oh My Gawd, 1989's Telepathic Surgery, and 1990's In a Priest Driven Ambulance, will be reissued on vinyl by Rykodisc/Restless in the near future. The first two records will appear on white and clear vinyl, respectively, with other pretty colors to follow for the final pair. All the better to stare at while you're tripping on...Coca-Cola.
The Flaming Lips website also reports that the first four Lips albums, 1986's Hear It Is, 1987's Oh My Gawd, 1989's Telepathic Surgery, and 1990's In a Priest Driven Ambulance, will be reissued on vinyl by Rykodisc/Restless in the near future. The first two records will appear on white and clear vinyl, respectively, with other pretty colors to follow for the final pair. All the better to stare at while you're tripping on...Coca-Cola.
If you don't have Clouds Taste Metallic yet, get that next. Actually pretty much everything from Hit to Death in the Future Head on is almost equally excellent.
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The Flaming Lips: "The Wand"
genre: psych-rock
No one ever stands up for progressives when they're dead-on-- look at Dean's media-fueled lunaticization. So, fuck it, I dig the Lips' burbly classic-rock riff-copping, "magic stick" trips and now-standard FX'd beats (ooh reverse snare!) plus handclaps. I also dig their winged-thing hope-- even if they're as subtle as Armaggedon: "Time after time those fanatical minds try to rule all the world," Wayne Coyne begins, swathed in falsetto backing, though "we got the power now/ 'Cause it's where it belongs" is either wishful or druggie thinking.
Hooks? Surely Dubya-heads will be pleased there really aren't any, and that these sonically playful foes still play loveable, uni-hit-wonderable Oklahoma acid-heads. Best parallel is Super Furry Animals' equally bilious, equally disestablishmentarian "The Frequency", except wait that one had a hook. "They have their weapons to solve all your questions/ They don't know what it's for," Coyne adds. I also like how "The Wand" fades into Beanie Siegel, but that's only because I mislabeled the mp3 so it has to play through "songs" on the 40-gig and "Flatline" follows Flaming. Lips'll box yr fucking head off. [Marc Hogan]
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