But with digital nowadays, there are almost no limits. I’m not surprised, especially considering the “gone gone gone” section in that song, which gets pretty distorted. David Fridmann and Michael have gotten pretty good at saying, “If the level goes up on this song, then it comes down a little bit on that one.” But Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was so fucking loud that they had to recut it. I don’t think it’s going to be the loudest record that The Flaming Lips have done. Some of our songs are longer than The Beatles’ versions, so it was a bit hard to squish onto a single disc. Wayne Coyne: We tried to have some guidelines for how we went about doing that. You guys must have made some tough mixing and mastering decisions since it’s only coming out on one disc. All in all, it’s just another day in the life of The Lips.ĭigital Trends: Before we get into the hi-res stuff, I have to say I’m really looking forward to spinning this album on vinyl. “Look, you’re going to hear this, so go out there and make your own music, draw pictures, take drugs, dye your hair green, and fucking have fun with your life!”Coyne, 53, gave Digital Trends the scoop on the recording of Fwends, how Miley Cyrus came to do what she does oh so well, y’all, and which album his band might cover next. Mascis drop the opening title track into a swirling cauldron of fuzz, distortion, and spaced-out vocals, while (yes) Miley Cyrus and Moby take Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds into another galaxy altogether and Tegan & Sara & Stardeath and White Dwarfs do a totally cosmic makeover of Lovely Rita. Pepper on its collective ear: My Morning Jacket, Fever The Ghost, and J. With a Little Help From My Fwends, out now through Warner Bros., finds Coyne and the gang enlisting a number of their fwends, er, friends to assist in turning Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, naturally embedded with their own patented Oklahoma-infused twists.
“Audio stardust” is certainly an apropos phrase to describe the ever-trippy music made by Coyne and his band The Flaming Lips, and they’ve once again reached for the sonic stars by covering the entirety of The Beatles’ benchmark 1967 LP, Sgt. “I’m sitting in my manager’s air-conditioned office in downtown Oklahoma City, looking at a picture of Pink Floyd on one side, with David Bowie right behind me,” Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips explains at the beginning of our interview.Ĭould there be a pair of more fitting legendary bookends for avant-rock pioneers Coyne to be nestled between - the mind-expanding aural masters that are the mighty Floyd and the always adventurous chameleon once (and probably forever) known as Ziggy Stardust?
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