The Flaming Lips announce album and gigs in April
February 6th, 2006
The Flaming Lips have completed work on their upcoming album ‘At War With The Mystics’ and the album has been scheduled for an April 3rd release date.
A tantalising teaser of the new material, the track ‘The W.A.N.D.’ is currently available as a download single from all major digital retailers. The first physical single to be taken from ‘At War From The Mystics’ will be the elaborate vocal harmonies of ‘The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song’ that follows the album on April 24th,
Set to be hailed as one of 2006’s most vital records, ‘At War With The Mystics’ was recorded at Tarbox Road Studios with producer David Fridmann (Mercury Rev, Mogwai).
The full tracklisting is: ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah Song’, ‘Free Radicals’, ‘The Sound Of Failure / It’s Dark… Is It Always This Dark?’, ‘My Cosmic Rebellion’, ‘Vein Of Stars’, ‘The Wizard Turns On…’, ‘It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big, I Am So Small… Do I Stand A Chance?’, ‘Mr. Ambulance Driver’, ‘Haven’t Got A Clue’, ‘The W.A.N.D.’, ‘Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung’ and ‘Goin’ On’.
The band - Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins - were inspired to pursue a more vehement sound after covering the Black Sabbath classic ‘War Pigs’.
"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," says Coyne. "On the last couple of records, we’ve tried to be more expressive in beautiful ways. But sometimes, volume and intensity are great too."
And in further exciting news, frontman Wayne Coyne has been confirmed to present an award at this year’s Brits on February 15th. The band will return to these shores to tour in April, with a prestigious show at the Royal Albert Hall already sold-out. The dates are:
April
19th - Edinburgh Usher Hall
22nd - London Royal Albert Hall
24th - Birmingham Academy
25th - Manchester Apollo
The last Flaming Lips album, ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’, was their most successful to date selling 200,000 copies in the UK as part of a total of 1-million sales worldwide. ‘Yoshimi…’ earned the band a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Performance for the album track ‘Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)’ as well as leading a plethora of album of the year polls.
