You might remember a couple of months ago I wrote a post about The Flaming Lips and their plans for recording and releasing lone tracks throughout the course of this year. One of the biggest causes for excitement when the announced this was their intention to work with electro/chillwave producer Neon Indian.
After a couple of months of waiting in tacit excitement, the collaboration has finally arrived. It's as psychadelic and peculiarly titled as you'd expect.
The track is entitled "Is David Bowie Dying?" and, whilst it doesn't quite explore the subject matter suggested in its title, it's as bizzarre and sprawling as such a question might suggest. The track's one big freaked-out sprawl of occasional, massive guitar chimes, shifting drums and Wayne Coyne's beardy croonings over the top. More and more layers join in as time goes on; a backing choir arrives, static scrawls flare up like screaming animals. It all gets rather freakily noisy, and I quite like it.
I said in the post I wrote back in January that collaborations like this can keep artists on their toes and stimulate creativity. Sounds like that's what's been going on to me, both bands clubbing together to create some more cracking psychadelia. It's not world changing, but hey, it's weird and the sun's out where I am. Boom.
Click here to head to the page where the track is available to listen to.
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