Flaming Lips Prepare Double Album

Ohio's famously 'out there' psychedelic oddballs The Flaming Lips are set to release a double album titled 'Embryonic'.

The Flaming Lips formed nearly two decades ago, blending Wayne Coyne's pop touch with a truly otherworldly vision. Gaining a cult following, the band were snapped up by Warner Brothers and have released some of the strangest music ever heard on a major label.

Take the album 'Zaireeka' for example. Not content with crafting some blistering psych-pop the band invented a new technique of splitting the music over four discs which are designed to be played simultaneously.

Since then, The Flaming Lips have gained a degree of mainstream appreciation. The band have been relatively inactive since their 2006 album 'At War With The Mystics', preferring instead to focus on other projects.

The band wrote, directed and acted in their very own film. 'Christmas On Mars' was finally completed last year, and is a visually stunning if fairly incoherent motion picture. Flaming Lips also wrote the soundtrack, releasing the music as a double album last year.

Now it seems the band are ready to return with a new album. "I think it must be like being a cook in the kitchen you’re preparing this great thing but by the time it's ready you’re sick of it because you’ve been smelling it, you’ve got it in your hair and in your fingers and all that," Wayne Coyne told BBC 6 Music.

The singer did, however, warn fans that the band are yet to finish naming the songs and completing the tracklisting. This reason for this was, he said, "because we want to go in so many strange directions and sometimes we’re unfocused and sometimes we’re just so wishy washy".

The Flaming Lips headlined RockNess at the weekend, and ClashMusic caught up with them for an exclusive video interview.

Click HERE to watch the interview with Wayne Coyne!

The Flaming Lips are due to release 'Embryonic' later this year.