Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks “Embryonic,” late-night entertainment
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne (Photo by Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman Archives)
Wayne Coyne, frontman of Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips, recently chatted with The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett to talk about the Lips’ new album, “Embryonic.”
Released Tuesday, “Embryonic” features 18 tracks that depart from their more recent lushly beautiful albums to the kind of “acid-damaged noise-pop,” as Gene calls it, they did 20 years ago.
The always-intriguing Coyne told Gene he wasn’t worried that “Embryonic’s” experimentation is going to turn off fans of the band’s more conventional (by Lips standards) recent music, such as the new Oklahoma state rock song, “Do You Realize??”
“I would feel more nervous if I felt as though we had played it safe,” he said.
Coyne also told Gene that inspiration from “Embryonic” came from a couple of divergent sources of late-night home entertainment: repeated spins of Miles Davis albums from the jazz great’s 1960s experimental electric period and repeated laser disc viewings of Liliana Cavani’s “The Night Porter,” an “artfully sleazy” 1974 Italian film about a sado-masochistic affair between an ex-Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and a woman (Charlotte Rampling) he used to abuse sexually in Auschwitz.
“I was singing about the dimensions of this movie that kind of shocked me or that I liked or were interesting or whatever, and I started to sing about the nature of evil and the nature of pleasure and the nature of submission and dominating, and all these things that I thought the music was kind of hinting at,” Coyne told Gene.
To read more of Gene’s fascinating feature on Coyne by clicking here.
-BAM
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