Last month, the Flaming Lips treated fans to a special treat by releasing their 15th studio album King’s Mouth: Music and Songs exclusively on gold vinyl. There were only 4000 released, which means only a limited number of humans have heard it. Thankfully, the band are giving a worldwide digital release on July 19. They’ve already shared the lead single, “Allo For the Life of the City,” and, today, a second single has been revealed.
Titled “Giant Baby,” the song sees the Clash’s Mick Jones narrate a fairytale-like story about what else but a giant baby. King’s Mouth is a concept album about a king who dies while trying to save his subjects from an avalanche. It’s based on an art installation of the same name that the band launched in 2015 and have toured around museums in the US since. Wayne Coyne previously told Billboard this about the record:
“We started out with a half-hour’s worth of abstract musical, dynamic stuff, and that ended up being 10 minutes by the time we got to the first museum opening in Baltimore. Then everywhere we’d go people would think, ‘This is going to be an album…’ We didn’t plan it that way, but I think it became more and more apparent that it could be a record.”
King’s Mouth: Music And Songs follows 2017’s Oczy Mlody. Watch the appropriately psychedelic video for “Giant Baby” below.
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