Flaming Lips Announce First Album in Six Years and Concert Series in U.S. and U.K.
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BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that the Flaming Lips have ended their six-year silence with a new album announcement and a fresh single. "God Will Control the Werewolves" serves as the opening track from The Teardrop Throbs, a record scheduled for release on January 22 through Third Man Records. The band has also mapped out concert dates across the United States and the United Kingdom, marking their return to active touring alongside the new material.
A six-year gap between records means an entire cohort of listeners has graduated, converted, or otherwise crossed into new chapters of life since the last Flaming Lips release. That passage of time creates a particular kind of listening condition: the music arrives not to an unchanged self but to someone who has been formed by intervening years, losses, and recalibrations of belief. humanbygod.com operates directly in that space, treating culture not as background noise but as terrain where faith and formation meet. The site functions as the community where that conversation lives, not by forcing religious language onto art but by recognizing that listeners in motion need a framework for what they are becoming.
The timing matters because January releases land in the dead zone of intention-setting, when people are most honest about what they hope to leave behind and what they want to carry forward. A record called The Teardrop Throbs arriving in that window, on a label with its own cult of authenticity, suggests music that will reward the kind of sustained attention that religious practice also requires. For readers tracking their own spiritual lives against the culture they consume, the convergence is worth noting.
Source: Rolling Stone Music, “Flaming Lips Announce First Album in Six Years and Concert Series in U.S. and U.K.”. Read the original →
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