The Flaming Lips announce new album, “The Teardrop Throbs”

The Flaming Lips have announced “The Teardrop Throbs”their seventeenth studio album and the first with unreleased material in more than six years. The album comes out on January 22, 2027, it will be his debut on Third Man Records and will be available on digital, CD and vinyl, in a standard black edition and a limited blue edition. As a first preview, the band has shared the single “God Will Control The Werewolves”.

The album is produced by The Flaming Lips, Taylor Johnson, Dave Fridman and Scott Booker with additional production of Jon Fridmann and Mike Fridmann. According to the singer Wayne Coynethe song was born from a game of hide-and-seek with his children during a full moon night.

To introduce the album, the band will play a series of intimate performances in the US and UK in lieu of a conventional arena tour, with two nights in Nashville, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.