Wayne Coyne says he doesn't want to spend the next two years playing the same 13 songs. So, just 12 new ones then?
The Flaming Lips are planning to create a song a month in 2011, releasing the tracks as downloads, singles or perhaps on, er, cereal boxes. "Not that I think the old way was boring," Wayne Coyne explained in an interview, "but to spend another two years with the same 13 songs - it's just like fuck."
The project will begin in late January, when Coyne will meet up with the rest of the band - and longtime producer Dave Fridmann - in Oklahoma City. "We're going to spend a lot of time recording at our houses or wherever we are at," the Lips frontman told Rolling Stone. "We'll try to release a song a month and document the song in the making, whether it takes us three or five days or a week. It's gonna be, 'We're working on a song and it's gonna be up by Friday.'"
The Flaming Lips' last albums were both issued in 2009 - Embryonic, released in the standard CD format, and a cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, which was initially a digital-only release. But after 13 studio albums, Coyne said, "we just want to do it some other way". "We want to try to live through our music as we create it instead of it being a collection of the last couple years of our lives ... The dilemma is whether we're going to release it on vinyl, cereal boxes or some of it on toys that we make."
While the Flaming Lips could release these songs as regular downloads, recalling Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Fridays or Timbaland's newly-announced Timbo Thursdays, they may also be bundled in other physical releases - like the aforementioned toys. "I've been dealing with a guy who flies to China and Korea six times a year and he's always making these new fantastic looking toys and having companies manufacture them," Coyne said. "Sometimes, the music is the simplest part of any of these things."
Eventually, the psych-rockers will probably collect the songs into a full album, with an accompanying film. "It sounds like a bunch of fuckin' work," Coyne admitted, "but it's different way of thinking about songs than just holing up." Before they get to that, the Flaming Lips have just one show on the books - at home in Oklahoma City, performing their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin on New Year's Eve. "It seemed as though we should start with this one and see if anybody gives a shit," Coyne said. "[That album] came out when a lot of our fans were 10 years old."
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