The next Flaming Lips album might be a double album - the first for the band in the CD format.
"Somewhere along the way it occurred to me that we should do a double album," front man Wayne Coyne told Billboard.“Just this idea that you can kind of weave a couple of themes into there and you can sort of sprawl a little bit. Our past couple of records we've always had this little dilemma, like how many songs do you put on? How many instruments do you put on? What's the focus?
“And some of my favorite records - thinking Beatles ‘White Album,’ Zeppelin’s ‘Physical Graffiti’ and even some of the longer things that the Clash have done - part of the reason I like them is that they're not focused. They're kind of like a free-for-all and go everywhere. It's not necessarily because we're prolific, I think we always stay in a sort of perpetual panic of like we never have more songs than we need and we always wonder if any of them are any good to begin with. I do think we probably work best in a panic, so maybe it's best that I planned it this way.”
The idea of a Flaming Lips opus as a follow up to their 2006 album ‘War of the Mystics’ is somewhat tantalising.
The band, according to the Billboard article, have written thirteen songs and are planning on writing another eight or nine before the album is released later this year.
Hopefully if the album is not released by the time they their upcoming shows, we’ll still get to hear some sneak previews.
Speaking of which, fans can check out the band at:
JUNE
12 - Rockness Festival Grounds, Loch Ness, UK
26 - St. Gallen Festival, St. Gallen, Switzerland
28 - Pitka Kuuma, Helsinki, Finland
JULY
19 - Pitchfork Festival, Union Park, Chicago, IL
25 & 26 - Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay, Australia
28 - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
29 - Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia
SEPTEMBER
13 - All Tomorrow’s Parties, Monticello, NY
