According to our buddies at Billboard, The Flaming Lips' next release will be a double album, and it's called Stay in Touch with the Samsung Eternity! Actually, no title has yet been released for the At War with the Mystics follow-up (though, The "At War With the Mystics" Follow-Up would be a pretty sweet title), but it's exciting to know that The Lips will be finally tackling their first double album. If any major label artist deserves to spread its music across two albums, it's The Flaming Lips. Hell, they've already done a four-discer!
Crazy man Wayne Coyne tells Billboard that 13 tracks have been written so far, with eight or nine more expected. The double album is tentatively slated for release later this summer on Warner Bros.. It sounds freaky too:
"I think with this there was an element of accidentally stumbling upon more spontaneous sort of freak-out stuff," Coyne tells Billboard. "We were sitting at (drummer) Steven's house and we just started out having these freak-out jam sessions where he'd play drums and I'd play bass and we just would sort of do freaky stuff. Some of those recordings, even though they're not recorded very well, really had a spontaneity about them that we probably wouldn't have purposely done.
So we just went with some of that and use those as sort of the bedrock of what we'd do later on with overdubs and lyrics and stuff like that. It sounds very exciting."
