The Flaming Lips announce new record Oczy Mlody

Frontman Wayne Coyne sheds some light on the LP's ideas and sounds in a press release:

When asked (about our newest album Oczy Mlody) what does your new stuff sound like..?? My current responsehas been that it sounds like Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky and they get trapped in a fairy tale from the future.. Ha.. Knowing full well that if you know who Syd Barrett is.. (original founder of classic rock/space opera group Pink Floyd) you probably DON’T know who A$AP Rocky is (current badass psychedelic rapper).. and if you know and like A$AP Rocky you probably don’t care or wouldn’t like Syd Barrett.. Ha..So yeah.. I think, perhaps, it is only within The Flaming Lips world that these 2 (Syd and A$AP) could accidentally find themselves, like Dorothy stumbling upon the scarecrow as she wondered down the yellow brick road towards Oz.. (not sure which one is Dorothy and which one is thescarecrow in this scenario..)

Coyne also discusses the album's songs and title in a pair of videos (below).

As well as the album and single, The Flaming Lips have confirmed two UK shows: London's Brixton Academy on 21 January and Manchester's Academy on 22 January.

The new record follows The Flaming Lips' collaborative project with Miley Cyrus and 2014's With A Little Help From My Fwends.

Tracklist:

1. Oczy Mlody
2. How??
3. There Should Be Unicorns
4. Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)
5. Nigdy Nie (Never No)
6. Galaxy I Sink
7. One Night While Hunting For Faeries And Witches And Wizards To Kill
8. Do Glowy
9. Listening To The Frogs With Demon Eyes
10. The Castle
11. Almost Home (Blisko Domu)
12. We A Famly