Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd, both of The Flaming Lips’, have formed new side project called Electric Würms that features four members of Nashville’s Linear Downfall. Electric Würms is releasing their first album – “Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk” – on August 19th, 2014 on Warner Brothers Records.
The band has just released a progressive psychedelic-infused track called, “Heart of the Sunrise”. And this new track fits in perfectly with the band’s colorful history. According to Brooklyn Vegan, who had copy of the band’s lighthearted space inspired press release, everything began in the late 1970’s, thanks in part to the invention of the “right kind of acid that could make you fly!” This new ‘flying-acid’ enabled “overly optimistic freaks of the day began flying into outer space.”
Initially, so the story goes, the flying freaks needed space ships, but later on they would become them, and took on the name Electric Würms. The author of the press release surmises that the freaks, “became just bolts of electrified electricity that could penetrate wormholes in the far reaches of the unknown galactic heaven.”
The original 1970’s Electric Würms left behind a “sonic bible of discoveries and failures” for the earthlings; however, their work remained a mystery of “frequencies and rhythms”. But, two members of the Flaming Lips and four Linear Downfall members are the chosen few to solve this decades old code.
The album’s title predicted the popularity of twerking, but noted that it is not a fitting dance style for every song, according to the press release. The title translated from German literally as “Music, The Hard to Twerk”. And, their newly released track, “Heart of the Sunrise” is said to have been influenced by the prog-folk group, Yes.
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However, The Electric Würms does not mean the end of The Flaming Lips. According to Brooklyn Vegan, they “are still working on their tribute/full-album-cover of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” featuring appearances from Moby, Miley Cyrus and more.” The Lips tribute to The Beatles will be released sometime later this fall.
In the meantime, check out “Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk”, which is now available for pre-order on iTunes.
“Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk” Tracklisting:
01. Deformed in the Future
02. Futuristic Hallucination
03. The Bat
04. The Second Time
05. Transform
06. Heart of the Sunrise
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