We were making two records together: Zaireeka, the four-CD behemoth, and we knew we were going to make this record. What headspace were you, Michael and Steven in while making The Soft Bulletin? Here, Coyne opens up about his memories of making The Soft Bulletin, his more subdued approach in 2019 and how he worked through his intense, competitive nature. "We got to make The Soft Bulletin and live to tell about it." "I wouldn’t want to be in that state of mind ever again," he says. Such are the band’s twin emotional poles they’ll be diving back into their most intense album, while mentally miles away from the addiction and dramathat fed it. "There’s no great fight that he’s fighting for." A low-key set with spoken-word narration from the Clash's Mick Jones, King’s Mouth reflects Coyne's newfound calm and clarity. "The king in my story is a very gentle, loving entity," Coyne says. If The Soft Bulletin is a perforated levee of feeling, King's Mouth is a trickling, tranquil river.
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Today (May 17) marks the 20th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin in September, the Flaming Lips will perform the album in full on three dates while promoting their newest, King’s Mouth, which arrived last month for Record Store Day. "Now, all that stuff doesn’t seem so chaotic to me." "I have a lot of energy, and I'm very intense," he tells The Recording Academy.
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Today, at 58 and expecting a baby boy, frontman Wayne Coyne is mostly free of these heightened states.
The trippy, outsized music lurches between darkness and light. Lyrically, it deals with mortal spider bites, parental grief and a scientists' cure for humanity. The Flaming Lips have always been a high-stakes band, and 1999’s The Soft Bulletin is their summit.
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