Hopefully, both parties will agree that this experiment has been a success and more records will come because we are now fully, and immediately, invested in this relationship. As for the Flaming Lips, this record shows that their distinctive sound is adaptable, adoptable and strong enough to avoid dilution through collaboration. If nothing else, this record will bring more attention to Deap Lips’ back-catalogue (which includes the hilariously titled 2016 LP, Femejism), which can only be a good thing for them. The fact that vocals are mostly provided by Deap Vally’s Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards (with the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne taking a backseat, vocally) means that this moves away from just being a Flaming Lips release featuring the LA based rock duo and into something properly new and exciting. This isn’t just two bands messing around together and deciding to make some of their stuff public, this feels like a proper collaborative effort and a proper album at that. The album itself, as mentioned, grabs you immediately and doesn’t let you go. As these two sounds blend with each other, the result is a cocktail that is constantly engaging and intriguing. But there is also a punchier, punkish drive to other songs like the opening ‘Home Through Hell’ and latest single ‘Motherfuckers Got To Go’. There is a Flaming Lips flavour to it, the slightly more left-field sound that you’ve come to expect from them is present on tracks like the catchily titled ‘One Thousand Sisters With Aluminium Foil Calculators’ (by the way, if that isn’t a Flaming Lips song title, we don’t know what is) and ‘Love is a Mind Control’. Together, they form Deap Lips and, as you might expect, the sound is truly unique. All it took was the combination of Los Angeles duo Deap Vally & quirky indie hall-of-famers Flaming Lips. But effective, if you’re into that sort of thing.Īgainst our expectations, it turns out we are that way inclined. This is an album that, within two minutes of meeting you, grabs you by the lapels, sticks its tongue down your throat and drags you back to their place. There are some that take a while to ease into, that you’re not sure about at first (maybe you find yourself looking elsewhere) and then suddenly it clicks and you think ‘oh, I get it now! This is what I was looking for all along.’ Pre-order Deap Lips ahead of the album’s March 2020 arrival here.Albums can sometimes be like relationships. The band spent most of the year in the studio, in addition to Troy celebrating the birth of her first child. The group is composed of The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd and Wayne Coyne, and Deap Vally’s Julie Edwards and Lindsey. The Flaming Lips released a pair of new albums in 2019 with their studio effort King’s Mouth: Music And Songs and live album The Soft Bulletin, with the latter highlighting their 2016 Red Rocks Amphitheater performance alongside the Colorado Symphony.ĭeap Vally has not released a collection of new music since 2016’s Femejism. Deap Lips is a band formed between rock groups The Flaming Lips and Deap Vally. Neither band has revealed plans to tour together behind their forthcoming album, but fans should be optimistic that the two exciting rock groups will hit the road for at least a few shows in the promotion of their collaborative project in the coming year.
Aside from some occasional subtle distortion, the song stays pretty relaxed throughout its 3:40-minute runtime. The song glistens and glides along thanks to the magical synths that ride right alongside Troy’s vocal melody. Six months later, the collaborative formation, appropriately known. Guitarists Lindsey Troy and Steven Drozd. The single opens with Deap Vally singer Lindsey Troy leading the way on vocals alongside the lively strums of an acoustic guitar. Back in May, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne took to Instagram teasing a collaboration with bluesy Los Angeles duo Deap Vally. Deap Vally joined forces with the Flaming Lips to create an epic musical adventure presented in sonic technicolor. Related: The Flaming Lips Announce Live Album From 2016 Red Rocks Performance With Colorado Symphonyĭeap Lips also shared the first single from their forthcoming 10-track album with the announcement on Friday in the form of an acoustic-driven tune titled, “Hope Hell High”. The two will release their collaborative, self-titled studio album early next year on March 13th via Cooking Vinyl. That finalized results of their efforts were announced by the two rock outfits on Friday in the form of a new project entitled, Deap Lips. Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based hard-hitting rock duo Deap Vally confirmed they were deep into a new collaborative project in the studio with psych-rock veterans Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips.
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