![]() How far along is the proper follow-up to The Terror? He spoke to SPIN about the status of the next album, collaborating heavily with Cyrus, and if those Kesha tracks are ever going to see the light of day. Considering Cyrus’ involvement in the making of the upcoming LP, Coyne hints that this path might be a complete 180. Provided that Coyne’s studio doesn’t lose everything in an untimely flood, the Flaming Lips are due to follow up 2013’s Krautrock-damaged The Terror - one of their most uncompromising records to date - with a new studio album. And this rain will come at such a fury that the storm drains will get clogged by all kinds of s-t that’s just floating around, and if it keeps going, the storm drains completely fill up and that goes into my house, my studio. Which doesn’t mean he hasn’t suffered their effects: “My house is this great, great, old house in the great, old part of Oklahoma City, but it’s built at the lowest part of the surrounding neighborhood. “I’ve tried and tried and tried but it’s not as easy or as simple as it would seem, or people make it seem in movies and stuff like that.”Īlso Read Exit Interview: The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on Space Bubbles, The Smile, ‘Do You Realize?’ Demo “I’ve lived here since 1961, my whole life, and I’ve never actually seen one,” he laments. Even stranger has been his unlikely alliances formed with pop stars like Kesha (who’d planned a collaborative record called Lip$ha before unknown powers-that-be brought the project to a screeching halt) and now the world-dominating Miley Cyrus, whom Coyne swears he talks to every single day. But 1999’s The Soft Bulletin and 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (both recently anointed as two of our 300 favorite albums of the last 30 years) sparked a critical and commercial hot streak for the band that hasn’t slowed down even as Coyne turned 54 this year. Coyne’s fronted the band as far back as 1981, and they remained a hardly commercial neo-psychedelic force in American indie rock until some major-label wizardry in 1994 got them on Beverly Hills 90210 and a woozy fluke hit, “She Don’t Use Jelly,” on the radio. ![]() The one-of-a-kind Flaming Lips frontman knows all too much about contrary irony. There’s some ridiculous contrary irony there or something.” ![]() “I’ve seen the Northern Lights five times, and I’ve never seen a tornado. “Maybe it’ll happen while we talk,” he says. Wayne Coyne calls while driving around his lifelong hometown of Oklahoma City, where they’re braced for a “sloppy” tornado/flood situation in early May. ![]()
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