The Flaming Lips第17张专辑《The Teardrop Throbs》官宣：2027年1月22日经Third Man Records发行，首支单曲已上线
Third Man Records 宣布，美国乐队 The Flaming Lips 的第17张录音室专辑《The Teardrop Throbs》将于2027年1月22日（周五）发行。这是这支三届格莱美奖得主乐队加盟该厂牌的首作，也是其六年多来第一张新专辑，上一张是2020年的《American Head》。专辑将推出数字、CD、黑胶及限量版「Teardrop Blue」蓝胶，预购已经开启；首支单曲《God Will Control The Werewolves》已于宣布当日上线流媒体平台。
专辑共13首歌，由乐队与 Taylor Johnson 等人联合制作。主唱 Wayne Coyne 在随公告发布的长文中说，新作灵感很大程度来自为人父的体验：他曾在停车场看着后座熟睡的3岁儿子 Rex，把「儿童健康基金会」的招牌错看成「儿童死亡基金会」，由此想到生命与失去；首单曲则源于他陪两个儿子在满月之夜玩捉迷藏时，为安抚怕狼人的孩子说出的那句「上帝会管住狼人一会儿」。Coyne 同时表示，他不认为任何一首歌有固定含义。
乐队还将举行一系列小型场地「连演两晚」演出：2027年1月22至23日从 Nashville 的 Brooklyn Bowl 起跑，其后依次为 New York 的 Irving Plaza（1月26至27日）、Los Angeles 的 The Bellwether（2月23至24日）、Chicago 的 Metro（2月27至28日），并于4月2至3日到 London 的 O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire 演出。乐队预售于10月28日上午10时（当地时间）开始，全面公开发售为10月30日；厂牌表示后续还会公布更多场次。
The Flaming Lips Announce 17th Album The Teardrop Throbs: Out January 22, 2027 via Third Man Records, Lead Single Premieres
Third Man Records has announced that The Teardrop Throbs, the 17th studio album by American band The Flaming Lips, will arrive on Friday, January 22, 2027. It is the three-time Grammy Award-winning band's label debut for Third Man and its first all-new LP in more than six years, following 2020's American Head. The album will be available digitally, on CD, and on vinyl in black and a limited-edition Teardrop Blue pressing, with pre-orders and pre-saves open now. Its first single, God Will Control The Werewolves, premiered on the day of the announcement and is streaming everywhere.
The 13-track album was produced by The Flaming Lips with Taylor Johnson, Dave Fridmann and Scott Booker, with additional production by Jon Fridmann and Mike Fridmann. In extensive notes accompanying the announcement, frontman Wayne Coyne traced much of the record's inspiration to fatherhood: sitting in a Trader Joe's parking lot watching his 3-year-old son Rex sleep in the back seat, he misread a Children's Health Foundation sign as Children's Death Foundation, setting off reflections on mortality and loss. The lead single, by contrast, grew out of a game of hide-and-seek with his sons Bloom and Rex under a full moon, when he reassured them that God would control the werewolves while they played. Coyne added that he does not believe any song has a fixed meaning, and does not want his songs to have one.
The tracklist opens with Throb and includes Titan, Every Teardrop Cried, Hooray, You See You in Me, You've Got Brain Damage and At the End of the Day, closing with the instrumental Now I Understand.
To introduce the album, the band will play a series of intimate two-night stands: Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl on January 22-23, 2027, followed by Irving Plaza in New York (January 26-27), The Bellwether in Los Angeles (February 23-24), Metro in Chicago (February 27-28) and London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (April 2-3). The band's pre-sale begins Wednesday, October 28 at 10 a.m. local time, local pre-sales follow October 29, and the general on-sale begins Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. local time. Additional dates will be announced, according to the label.
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