The Flaming Lips headlining Bluedot Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Flaming Lips have confirmed their new album American Head for release on September 11th.
After starting the month with a new track entitled Flowers Of Neptune 6, the band are ending it with details of a record which will contain that single, today’s next preview My Religion Is You, and eleven other new cuts, all produced by their longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann.
“Even though The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma we never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band,” Wayne Coyne explains. “I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)… it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.”
“So…for most of our musical life we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’…not really caring WHERE we were actually from. 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.”
“We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.”
American Head tracklist:
Will You Return / When You Come Down
Watching the Lightbugs Glow
Flowers Of Neptune 6
Dinosaurs On The Mountain
At The Movies On Quaaludes
Mother I’ve Taken LSD
Brother Eye
You n Me Sellin’ Weed
Mother Please Don’t Be Sad
When We Die When We’re High
Assassins Of Youth
God and the Policeman (Feat. Kacey Musgraves)
My Religion Is You
