The Flaming Lips Release New Song “All For The Life of the City” from Record Store Day 2019 Album

The Flaming Lips released a new song “All For The Life of the City” from their new album, King’s Mouth: Music and Songs which was released on April 13 on Record Store Day. The song is melodic with an amazing backstory of  a ‘benevolent despot’ whose tragic death was widely mourned by his people centuries ago. The people removed his head and preserved it as a testament for suffering a tragic death, while trying to save his people from a snow avalanche.

The lyrics, “The King dies today, in a time far away. In the spring it was found, where he was buried. Flowers grew from his toes. The mountain and sky told the story of how he held back the avalanche snow. And the King saves the day. The King dies today.” The epic sounds of this tale weave throughout the song’s ephemeral and surreal electronics. While listening you are taken back centuries ago, in true form.

In 2015, The Flaming Lips launched an art installation called the’King’s Mouth’at The Womb, the group’s headquarters in Oklahoma City. The art installation has since been shown at museums in Baltimore, Portland and Santa Fe.

Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips recalls. “We were already planning to have a narrator for (King’s Mouth) because it felt a little bit like a storybook, and I felt like this eccentric British guy would be the right kind of character for the role. So we mailed (Jones) the text and everything — songs we hadn’t even written yet, just some outlines — and we didn’t really know what was going to happen, then about a month later it all came back, already recorded, and it was perfect.” Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite narrates on the song.

Photo Credit: Mauricio Alvarado

Kelly Tucker: Originally from Los Angeles, I grew up listening to all types of music. My first concert was Aerosmith with Skid Row, then moved on to concerts with Metallica, Lollapalooza, Guns N’ Roses, Soundgarden and more. One of my favorite shows of all time was when I was in college and someone took me to see the Allman Brothers play. I also scalped a ticket to see Pearl Jam and the amazing Eddie Vedder sing his heart out. My professional career started in 2000 at Nielsen Business Media where I was an assistant in a sales department and later got promoted to advertising account executive. When the recession hit in 2008 and the magazine was sold, I took a job at a call center and later got promoted to assistant to the CEO and COO of a global company. In 2017, I took a position at a pharmaceutical agency, and now currently responsible for coordinating meeting logistics for physicians and pharma reps throughout the United States. In my spare time, I work at Peace4Kids a non-profit in South Los Angeles and write screenplays in hopes to make a breakthrough.
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