Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips playing at Festival Hall, Melbourne Australia
Photo by Ros O'Gorman

THE FLAMING LIPS HAVE A DATE SET FOR NEW ALBUM

By Sally Bailey

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:23:03 +1100

The Flaming Lips have just announced the long-awaited release of The Terror, their thirteenth studio album will happenn April 2nd in the U.S., and April 1st in Europe.

The album was produced by the band's long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann and THE FLAMING LIPS at Tarbox Road Studios. It is comprised of nine original compositions that reflect a darker-hued spectrum than previous works, along with a more inward-looking lyrical perspective than one might expect - but then again, maybe not. It's up to you, the listener, to decide what it means to you. Wayne Coyne explains in a truly ambiguous way, "Why would we make this music that is The Terror - this bleak, disturbing record? I don't really want to know the answer that I think is coming. Maybe this is the beginning of the answer."

The Terror is apparently a bold and expressive journey that has evolved over THE LIPS' nearly 30-year tended garden of sonic delights that ebbs and flows with extraordinary splashes of darkness and light, pleasure and pain, chaos and order.

As folks have come to know with THE FLAMING LIPS, the real beauty lies with the knowledge that to expect the unexpected is all part of the frenzied fun. "If we have love, give love and know love," Coyne says, "we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror, we know now, that even without love, life goes on...we just go on...There is no mercy killing."

Track listing for The Terror:

Look...The Sun Is Rising

Be Free, A Way

Try To Explain

You Lust

The Terror

You Are Alone

Butterfly, How Long It Takes To Die

Turning Violent

Always There...In Our Hearts

Confirmed Tour Dates:

Mar 29 Sao Paulo, Brazil Lollapalooza Brazil