The Flaming Lips - Mother I've Taken LSD [Official Audio]

Flaming Lips' latest work is a fantasy about growing up in the United States. The project's mentor, Wayne Coyne, explained to i what inspired this adventure. It all started with the death of Tom Petty, in 2017. This event led Wayne Coyne, vocalist, guitarist and founder of Flaming Lips, a native of Oklahoma, to imagine what the sound of a true American band would be. The musician tried to answer this proposition on his band's most recent album, American Head, released last Friday, and to i, through a conversation by FaceTime. The band, which at the turn of the century launched the seminals The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots that would come to influence countless alternative rock bands since then, studied authors such as the Grateful Dead, the Eagles or country music, in order to music this fantasy. The disc may suggest a glorification to a country that is inserted in a sensitive context, with the Black Lives Matter movements, the devastation caused by the coronavirus, or the impending North American elections, but Coyne refutes the theory and tells us that “on purpose, I would never make a song with any direct reference to Donald Trump ”(although, in 2006, in the song Free Radicals, he compared George W. Bush to a“ poor man's Donald Trump ”). “I hope that our music reaches the hearts of listeners directly regardless of the year in which it is heard or the president in power”