The Flaming Lips Reveal New Album The Teardrop Throbs

Foto de Blake Studdard Carregador de comentários Salvar história Salvar esta história Carregador de comentários Salvar história Salvar esta história Dois meses depois de lançarem a edição de 20º aniversário de At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips voltarão com seu primeiro álbum novo em sete anos (e 17º no total).

The Teardrop Throbs, the band’s debut on Third Man Records, arrives January 22. The release also marks the psych-rockers first LP in 35 years to not feature multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, who is no longer in the band (reasons for why vary depending on the party).

Teardrop is led by single “God Will Control the Werewolves”—which you can listen to below—along with a sequel to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell.”.

Following its release, Coyne and co. will present The Teardrop Throbs—which was produced by the band alongside Taylor Johnson, Dave Fridmann, and Scott Booker, with additional production by Jon and Mike Fridmann—at a handful of intimate shows.

Revisit our 2020 review of the Lips’ American Head.

The Teardrop Throbs:01 Throb02 God Will Control the Werewolves03 Titan04 Every Teardrop Cried05 Hooray06 Instructions On How to Draw An Eyeball or How To Deal With a Loved One Who Is Addicted to Drugs07 You See You In Me08 You’ve Got Brain Damage09 At the End of the Day10 The Trees Are Getting Their Leaves / Ceasefire in the City of Singing Flame11 Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell Part Two12 A Sunset Far Away13 Now I Understand.

Eu estava sentado no carro no estacionamento do Trader Joe’s. Little Rex tinha 3 anos na época e estava dormindo no banco traseiro. Eu verificava ele olhando no espelho retrovisor.

And ( like all fathers with little kids ) was astonished at how beautiful and perfect he was and if anything happened to him ( like illness or bad accident) my life would be destroyed.

I think all parents probably have these types of thoughts a hundred times every day. So with these things floating around my head I noticed a sign ( for I guess one of the establishments in the strip mall:: that the Trader Joe’s was in).

it read Children’s Death Foundation… I immediately thought of my mother , as a teenager ,assisting the nuns at her Catholic junior high school with grieving families that had just suffered the loss of a child.

I imagined the cold nights sitting with strangers consoling and understanding them and attempting to hold their family together…it was just my imagination running away with me and I looked up again at little Rex in the backseat and again at this sign.

I had mis-read it .. it actually said Children’s HEALTH Foundation not Children’s DEATH Foundation … I had done that a couple other times where , I guess, I had death on my mind.

Eu lembro de estar na Feira Estadual e ver Bolos de Funil como Bolos Funerários… mas esse lampejo de minha mãe voluntariando na Fundação de Morte Infantil se solidificou em minha mente e já me mexeu, então, mesmo que eu estivesse errado, o dano ou a epifania já tinham sido feitos.

It occurred to me there will never be anything in my life as important as my two little boys.. So.. I am lucky. To have arrived at the greatest of the greatest purposes in life ..yes.

I am here. But also we ( The Flaming Lips ) are making a new record and what’s in your mind usually finds its way into your music whether you intend it to or not.

The first song on this new record was also the first song that presented itself in this 2 year process.

A música Throb é um trecho da trilha sonora do filme The Night of the Hunter. Eu sempre adorei a música desse filme e, especialmente, a canção Pretty Fly que a menina canta enquanto ela e seu irmão flutuam pelo rio, recém-escapados de serem sequestrados pelo vilão pregador.

I had set A. J. ( Adam Judd Slaughter) our new slide guitar player (he can actually play everything including drums) to task of doing a note for note re-playing of the Pretty Fly song and he did a long beginning and a long end that I didn’t recognize.

but it was really evocative.. and so without knowing where this would go we began to put some guitars and drum machines to it ..it was a longer piece of music that included the Pretty Fly song that I changed the lyrics to ( about a dreary hospital ) and this small section is all that survived ( for now ) and it was in keeping with the Children’s Death Foundation vision I had.

O filme The Night of the Hunter é realmente um pesadelo sobre crianças em perigo.

The second track God Will Control the Werewolves started as a little story about my 2 boys ( Bloom and Rex) and me playing hide and seek at the park as it was getting dark outside.

Tivemos plena consciência dos ciclos lunares quando ficamos em um Airbnb com vista para o oceano há cerca de um mês. A lua cheia havia sugado toda a água dessa área da enseada oceânica e caminhamos um quarto de milha pelo leito marinho, observando criaturas marinhas estranhas coladas às rochas.

but yes.. because of the moon we had this amazing adventure so it was fresh in our minds and on this evening of hide and seek it was luckily another full moon.

Bloom asked me if, while him and Rex were hiding , the werewolves would get them ( they had also watched a few werewolf movies and knew that the full moon was the time when the werewolves were out and about ) and I told him God would control the werewolves for a little bit while we played hide n seek.

The way I heard the song sounding ( in my head ) was kind of Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon BUT Syd Barrett is still in the band .. ha.

The third track was a throbbing little song that Tommy ( our bass player ) cooked up on his home Pro-Tools rig .. when it arrived it was called .. I think .. Matrix.

it was menacing but also kind of hyper and it was a fun mood to insert right after the slow dark God Will Control the Werewolves track. We added some Mellotron flutes and an awkward chord break in the middle.

E deixei isso de lado por um tempo. E então, numa manhã, eu estava caminhando até o Tim Hortons, na rua a partir do estúdio de Dave Fridmann ( está quase 2 milhas de distância) e eu tinha essa música ( a música da Matrix ) passando pela minha cabeça, e eu tinha o telefone à mão e recebi uma mensagem de Perry Farrell.

he sent a little poem about ( hold on let me find the text ) being like a frog and jumping from one idea of life to another .. jump lightly and don’t mess up your lillypads.

( how great is that !!) and I was reminded of his crazy intense singing ( like Coming Down The Mountain.. that song ) and pictured a high energetic voice screaming some advice about taking action.

The Frogs are Jumping oh oh!! The Sun’s eruptin let’s go!! The Titans are hunting !! The stars are melting Let’s go!!! Matt did some amazing high singing and Improvising that really opened up a new melodic sense that The Flaming Lips hadn’t played with before.

The next track Every Teardrop Cried started as just one line .. it was meant to be just an interlude between songs .. it started that day in the Trader Joe’s parking lot ..the line was “Every drop of rain that falls is you…” referring again to the death of a child ( a believe it had been about a year since Nell had died ) seeing this child in every thing that is sublime.

e eu pensei que uma linha realmente resumisse tudo... mas não consegui parar e adicionei outra linha e outra... a estrofe do meio “you’re in my eyes”... “you’re in my ears”.

The song Hooray started out being connected to the song At The End of the Day .. but quickly became too big and we trimmed it down and made it two songs instead of one big long song.

It started out as a Sci-Fi / Spy adventure type song. It was originally about a blonde secret agent super-freak woman and she steals the president’s brain and is on the run from some futuristic Russian assassins.

Katy my wife heard it and thought .. this sounded so sweet and longing ( she was listening from another room) and now that I hear the words and realize you’re singing about the president’s brain.

Você deve mudar isso .. as pessoas vão pensar que você está falando sobre Trump e é tão bonito que ninguém vai pensar em Trump .. você deve mudar isso ..ha.. então.

Instructions on how to draw an eyeball or how to deal with a loved one who is addicted to drugs é uma música simples, simples que eu basicamente inventei enquanto cantava no microfone.

The song You See You in Me .. these great little splatters of guitar rhythms ( with lyrics) da da da dada da da“ There one goes!!! Dadada (kind of machine gun) Another one goes” made us all laugh.

That the song would really do that.. Using the song structure as sound effect to tell the story.. The original take of the song went a couple minutes longer at the end.

With A. J’s slide guitars getting crunchier as it went and the distorted string patch that Derek played .getting more and more distorted..we couldn’t decide where to stop.

luckily some time passed and eventually we were with Dave Fridmann and without any struggle we made the song a few minutes shorter and added to the very end an unexpected message “the flames reach higher”.

Sometimes there is an energy when a song is being made that is in the actual MAKING of it and upon LISTENING later you understand that.. the energy is NOT in the listening …so.

Torná‑o mais curto manteve a música viva, em vez de ela perder o fôlego à medida que se desenvolvia. Mas esses são os mecanismos de gravação que, às vezes, temo que possam tirar a magia de uma música.

to think of a song as drum parts and string parts and bass parts all haphazardly thrown together maybe does the song a disservice. This song has some kind of pure enthusiasm that you can’t really put into words.

A faixa At The End of the Day começou como uma música com letra e melodia… Eu estava tocando guitarra e cantando na minha cozinha e Katy (minha maravilhosa esposa) começou a cantar essa linha “At the end of the day”.

I quickly turned it into a little song about how in the fall the shadows of the oncoming evening make you melancholy and slightly depressed but also kind of a comforting distress.

the trees are dying :: you are dying :: the sun is dying …we began to add some instrumentation to this little chord progression and it quickly revealed itself ( the song did ) as more powerful WITHOUT my narration.

Ainda sinto que voltarei a isso algum dia.

The song The Trees Are Getting Their Leaves ( Ceasefire in The City of The Singing Flame) .. this is an imaginary city street and I am witnessing all the new life emerging from the end of the war.

This segues into Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell Part 2::: .. I’ve always liked it when songs from previous records ( Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell is a song off of our 2002 album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots) get a new rendering.

Não é a mesma música, mas trata da morte do ego… o que é status e poder e a luta para transformá‑los em algo útil… e isso novamente é uma tentativa de capturar a ideia de Syd Barrett liderando o Pink Floyd e, em vez de cantar sobre dinheiro (Money foi um grande single de Dark Side Of The Moon), ele, Syd, escolhe, em vez de cantar sobre dinheiro, cantar sobre uma rainha que mata o rei e rouba sua coroa para derretê‑la e fazer uma espada com ela.

The long ending of Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell Part 2 dissolves into the beginning of A Sunset Far Away. A Sunset Far Away is probably about some beautiful but tumultuous situation that is better left in the distance ..and to still feel optimistic about it.

ha.. the middle section lingers as the voice from beyond watches the sun go down down down down .. lower and lower.

A última faixa é um instrumental chamado Now I Understand, a orquestração que estava por trás do final de outra música… descartamos (por enquanto) a estrutura da música, canto, bateria e guitarras e, para The Teardrop Throbs, apresentamos como esse drama cósmico que parece ter uma resolução feliz.

so .. dear reader .. please keep in mind there are a thousand things that go into making a song .. I don’t really believe any song has a fixed meaning .. and I don’t WANT my songs to have a fixed meaning.

Acredito que a música deva ter o poder de influenciar seu humor e sentimentos, independentemente de como nós, The Flaming Lips, a tocamos e a montamos. Essas notas são apenas alguns pontos de discussão para facilitar a obtenção de insights que você possa usar ao revisar e debater este álbum.

I am glad to talk about anything you are interested in.