But luckily I think what we’re always doing is we’re always making music. Both albums have that quality.Īgain, I think that’s something that if I’m aware of it I don’t think I would know what that is. You’re one of the only people to ever notice that.Īs Jasper mentioned in his interview with you, there’s a very childlike curiosity to the music. It’s a strange way to look at that, and I think you’re exactly right. I think you’re right, we reached a point where the weirdness leads us into a more relatable, humanistic simple song. This music kept, I think, getting richer and richer. I think even while we were doing that, we were doing music with Miley Cyrus, doing three or four different albums. The Oczy Mlody record, it’s wonderful and it’s quirky but it’s a pretty freaky record. We were working on The Soft Bulletin at the same time. I think you couldn’t get that much freakier than the Zaireeka album that came out in 1997. I do think we love to get into these experimental tangents that kind of open up a new door to the way that we sound and the way we can express ourselves, and then I do think we come back to doing very humanistic, relatable music. The Soft Bulletin seems to parallel the new album, The King’s Mouth, as both seem like sonic detours after what came before. I remember when it was first five years old and we’d say “Wow, that’s crazy.” It still seems like it’s a new record, and then it’s 10 years old, and I remember when it was 10 years old and “Wow, it’s crazy.” And then it was 15 years old, you sort of build up to it. It’s never been that far out of our minds.
We’ve played it, a lot of it, all throughout the last 20 years, and some of it we play virtually every night, and there’s three or four songs on there we play virtually every night, that we play a concert for people. I think if you’re 25 years old that seems like you have your entire your life almost that we put that record, and since we put it out in 1999 it’s always been with us. Wayne Coyne: When you’re as old as I am, I’m 58 years old, that doesn’t seem that long ago that we put out The Soft Bulletin. Miller ( Under the Radar): What does it mean to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin? Their previous album was 2017’s Oczy Mlody. Singer Wayne Coyne talked with Under the Radar about celebrating The Soft Bulletin‘s 20th anniversary and how it relates to the band’s current album, King’s Mouth: Music and Songs, which was first released on Record Store Day and will be getting a wider release on July 19 via Warner Bros.
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Their ambitious and experimental 1997 album Zaireeka was created through a series of parking lot and boombox experiments, and the listener needed to play the four discs simultaneously to get the complete sound. On May 17, 1999, The Flaming Lips released The Soft Bulletin, an album that found them take a more conventional writing and recording path -at least compared to what came before.
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