The Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips will release the album The Teardrop Throbs on January 22, their first new material since 2020's American Head. It will be their seventeenth album and also the first without Steven Drozd, who joined the band in 1991. The multi-instrumentalist announced at the end of 2025, following a personal crisis, that he had definitively left the band; frontman Wayne Coyne disputed his version of the departure on Instagram. Rolling Stone ↗
The album is being released on Jack White's Third Man Records label and was produced by the band's longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann. The first single, God Will Control the Werewolves, was born out of a game of hide-and-seek during a full moon, when Coyne's sons Bloom and Rex asked if the werewolves would catch them. Musically, Coyne envisioned it as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, "but with Syd Barrett still in the band." The album also includes the songs Throb, You've Got Brain Damage, and Every Teardrop Cried. Spin ↗
The band will present the album over two evenings each in smaller clubs in Nashville, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and on April 2 and 3 at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush club. The first evening will feature the new album together with songs from 1986 to 1999, the second will feature its new rendition along with songs from 2002 to 2020. Even before that, on November 13, a reissue of the album At War With the Mystics will be released for its 20th anniversary. Spin ↗
The band's best-known song remains Do You Realize?? from 2002.
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips at a concert in London's Brixton in 2017. Photo: Drew de F Fawkes / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
The Flaming Lips to release first album in six years, this time on Third Man Records
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