Scratching The Door highlights tracks recorded by The Flaming Lips’ original line-up, which featured Wayne Coyne’s brother Mark on vocals. The Flaming Lips have pushed the envelope and bent boundaries for more than two decades with the band’s Grammy®-winning music and ground-breaking concerts. The album was the band’s breakthrough moment and featured the hit singles “Race for the Prize” and “Waitin’ for a Superman.” Now, the resulting live recording is being released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin. The performance was conducted by the internationally celebrated conductor Andre De Ridder. The Flaming Lips performed the 12-track album in its original sequence with new arrangements accompanied by a 69-piece orchestra and 56-strong chorus. For the Lips and their fans, perhaps the apex of a magnificent interpretation that will remain as rewarding and emotionally-charged as it was that night in 2016. This particular event has been regarded by those in attendance as one of the most awe-inspiring, moving and magical moments of a lifetime. On 26th May 2016, The Flaming Lips performed their universally acclaimed 1999 album The Soft Bulletin in its entirety with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.” and your desires are all that you can care about.but. Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and father.your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning there is only you. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion.I can’t quite put it into words. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. The music and songs that make up the AMERICAN HEAD album are based in a feeling. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe. 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. 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. not really caring WHERE we were actually from. for most of our musical life (as The Flaming Lips starting in 1983) we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’. it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s). 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 never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band. American Head takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to dateĪmerican Head finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled “We’re An American Band.” Among them, “God and the Policeman” featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips.
American Legends The Flaming Lips announce the release of their 21st studio album, American Head via Bella Union.
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