Wayne Coyne Discusses Multidimensional Musicality With The Daily Beast

Talking recently with The Daily Beast, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne explained that writing new album Oczy Mlody wasn’t exactly a linear process. “As we were working doing things we’d always stumble upon little magical moments, and mess with it. It’s sort of dumb luck. Even now, we have four or five things that we’re working on. Some are boring, some are fun, and some we’re stuck on, but you just go with it.” The frontman continued, “The way I’ll work is, instead of making one song and then you put that away and work on another song, sometimes I’ll combine three songs I’ve been working on into one song. Music really invites two or three different dimensions. Music can hold all that. Sometimes, I think movies and television struggle with that, but music gets into a part of your brain where you welcome complexity, and like that it’s flowing around in a way that you didn’t expect.” Check out the psychedelic video for the track “There Should Be Unicorns” below:

Read the full interview, which also includes Coyne’s articulations about death, Miley Cyrus, countercultural movements, Donald Trump, and much more, right here.