The Flaming Lips, Deap Lips & Deap Vally - Home Thru Hell (Radio Date: 10-01-2020)

Deap Vally + The Flaming Lips = DEAP LIPS

DEAP VALLY
IL DUO ROCK&ROLL CALIFORNIANO FORMATO DA LINDSEY TROY & JULIE EDWARDS
E THE FLAMING LIPS
PSYCHO-HEROS DALL’OKLAHOMA, OVVERO WAYNE COYNE & STEVEN DROZD
INSIEME PER LA PRIMA VOLTA
PER UNA STRAORDINARIA COLLABORAZIONE, DEAP LIPS,
IL CUI OMONIMO ALBUM DI DEBUTTO E’ IN ARRIVO IL 13 MARZO 2020
SU ETICHETTA COOKING VINYL
NUOVO BRANO PUBBLICATO OGGI: ‘HOME THRU HELL’


Dopo ‘Hope Hell High’, Deap Lips svelano oggi ‘Home Thru Hell’, una nuova anticipazione tratta da ‘Deap Lips’, l’atteso album in arrivo il 13 marzo (Cooking Vinyl/Egea Music/The Orchard) che vede per la prima volta Deap Vally e The Flaming Lips, due band di punta del panorama alternative-rock&roll mondiale, collaborare insieme.
L’idea di questa brillante collaborazione risale a parecchi anni fa, quando Troy ed Edwards si sono letteralmente innamorate del sound di The Flaming Lips: la super hit ‘The Soft Bullettin’ è tra le dieci canzoni di tutti i tempi per Edwards, che afferma: "You can listen to their entire catalogue and the experience is so intact, full of experiments, philosophy, hooks, and the sublime. There are very few artists who can offer the same experience on a decades-spanning deep dive."
Torniamo nel 2016, quando Deap Vally erano in tour con Wolfmother. Coney si presentò allo spettacolo a Raleigh (all'epoca Edwards era in congedo di maternità). Wayne, in città alla ricerca dei migliori oggetti di scena, arrivò per lo spettacolo e Troy e Coyne si conobbero dopo il set. Dopo questo incontro, Coyle cominciò a taggare Deap Vally in alcuni post su Instragram con The Flaming Lips in studio. Nelle teste di Deap Vally si insinua il pensiero di una collaborazione con Coyne ma poi si impegnano in altre produzioni con KT Tunstall, Peaches, Jamie Hince (The Kills), Soko, Jenny Lee (Warpaint), Jennie Vee (EODM), Zach Dawes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mini Mansions) e Ayse Hassan (Savages).
Successivamente, Deap Vally partono per l’Oklahoma per scrivere e registrare ai Pink Floor Studios, lo studio dei The Flaming Lips.
Coyne: "I can’t remember exactly when I became aware of Deap Vally... but let’s say it was sometime just before I saw them play. I was in Raleigh visiting with the creator of the World’s Largest Gummy Bear, and so getting to experience Deap Vally was just one more cool thing of many cool things that were happening to me. Deap Vally really rocked the mostly all dude crowd that was there to scream to WolfMother. I met Lindsey that night and we both were glad we met. Deap Vally got my phone number and about a year later hit me up, out of the blue ..and invited themselves to come to Oklahoma City and jam with us and maybe come up with a couple songs for their "collaboration" album that they were working on."
"They showed up with no songs so Steven [Drozd] and I quickly threw together a song and set about playing and tracking and singing and rewriting lyrics and before we knew it we, surprisingly, had a great, great track. Which would become the opening track off the record "Home Thru Hell." The session in Oklahoma City was fun and spontaneous and a very lucky kind of magic happened...we stumbled upon some really great, catchy, cool songs. They came up with "Shit Talkin" (third song on the album) and Dennis (our engineer) suggested we re-work an old StarDeath and White Dwarfs song (his band he started in 2005) called "The Birth" and that turned into "There Is Know Right There Is Know Wrong." When our couple of days together had ended we all felt like, somehow, something had just begun."
"For the next year whenever we had another song idea we (Steven, Dennis and I) would put it down with either Steven or I doing a demo voice track and we would ship it off to the gals back in L.A. and see if they could turn it into something cool to listen to..and ya know ... THEY DID.. it sounded really cool.. I mean really fucking cool.. and we were encouraged to, well, just keep tryin ..and after we had 5 or 6 cool songs we kind of decided to attempt to make a whole record. We dug out an old track that we originally did for Kesha ("Love Is Mind Control") and great great re-imagining of the classic Steppenwolf song "The Pusher" that was briefly considered for a Miley Cyrus project and these tracks, again, really suited Julie and Lindsey’s style and vibe.. We were beginning to think we’ve accidentally made a really great record .. but.. it’s not really a Deap Vally record (they write and record and produce their own stuff) and it’s not really a Flaming Lips record .. and So (even if it is just this one time .. who knows ?? Maybe we’ll do another) the group Deap Lips was born."