Flaming Lips Secret Talk New Album

American psychedelic wonders The Flaming Lips have spoken about their challenging new album 'Embryonic'.

It was perhaps the most unexpected release of the year. After a decade of sterling songwriting - although perhaps a little to coffee table for some - Flaming Lips returned with an album of unrepentant freak out jams.

Conceived after the release of their film 'Christmas On Mars' the new album has stunned fans. Recalling the psychedelia of their early years the new release has split critics, with many rallying to its cause.

Speaking to American magazine Pitchfork, singer Wayne Coyne revealed that the jam orientated approach lifted the "curse of songwriting".

"I didn't really have a lot of pressure to think these were great songs that we'd spent five years writing. That's the curse of songwriting, that sometimes you write these songs and you think they have some sort of intuitive, special, subjective meaning" he said.

"And I know even when we were doing 'Zaireeka', there would be moments where we just simply didn't know what the fuck we were going to do. And it didn't matter what we did, as long as we did something, and sometimes that's where your stuff comes from."

Continuing, Wayne Coyne insisted that the band wanted to release 'Embryonic' quickly, in order to avoid gathering doubts about their recording method.

"I think we were lucky with this record that we didn't really give ourselves any time to reconsider it. Because almost immediately when we were done with it, I woke up in a panic, like, "Oh my God, what have we done? We don't know what we're doing, and now we have this record that we're all committing to for a couple years of our lives now." It's almost like you woke up and it's too late. Whoever you killed last night is going to be dead forever."

The Flaming Lips new album 'Embryonic' is out now.