The Flaming Lips live at the Manchester Apollo (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
The Flaming Lips have unveiled another slice of American Head after confirming their new album for release on September 11th back in June.
Will You Return / When You Come Down was directed by Wayne Coyne and George Salisbury whilst in Oklahoma quarantine, the opening track of an LP which was given a lengthy introduction by Coyne:
“Even though The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma we never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band,” he said. “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
