The Flaming Lips return with seventeenth album, The Teardrop Throbs

The Teardrop Throbs follows the band's 2020 album American Head, and will mark their first release on Third Man Records. "God Will Control The Werewolves" — a track inspired by band lead Wayne Coyne playing hide and seek with his sons under a full moon — lands as the first preview of the wide-ranging collection of songs, and is accompanied by an extensive letter from band lead Coyne detailing the creative process behind it. Coyne traces the album's origins back to a moment in a Trader Joe’s car park, where he misread a sign for the “Children’s Health Foundation” as the “Children’s Death Foundation” while watching his sleeping son in the rearview mirror. This led him to think back to his mother, who, as a teenager , assisted nuns at her Catholic school with grieving families that had suffered the loss of a child, with this becoming the emotional crux of the album. “There will never be anything in my life as important as my two little boys,” Coyne writes. “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 int...