One building from this intriguing first shot. The Flaming Lips have announced a vinyl component of their ongoing anniversary celebrations surrounding beloved 10th album, 2002s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Hopefully, Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips will make another album soon – and in the old-fashioned way. Although more dense and harder edged, the only analogous album coming to mind is 2008’s (great) Scarlett Johansson album Anywhere I Lay My Head. It does not matter that these are Nick Cave songs – they are transmuted. Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell includes 7 Yoshimi-era tracks that were included in the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set. Although some treatments have been given to Smith's voice, the generally subtle, unobtrusive band backings do not swamp her. Where The Viaduct Looms is direct and affecting. For this checked-ambition initial outing, he suggested the songs of Nick Cave as she had not heard of him so would lack preconceived notions of how they would be sung. This was meant to be a studio album made at Coyne and Co's Oklahoma base but instead – for reasons of the pandemic – Smith recorded her vocals and guitar, and sent the tracks to Coyne after which the band added their contributions. Inspired, she began learning guitar and writing songs, and Coyne suggested they join forces. She and her family had moved from Leeds to Calgary, where she first saw The Flaming Lips at the Sled Island Festival. Jamie Reddy December 16th, 2021 - 10:47 PM. Three years on, Where The Viaduct Looms arrives.
Smith had been seeing The Flaming Lips since she was 12 and was noticed stage-side by frontman Wayne Coyne as she sang along with their songs in a parrot outfit. It’s her first LP.Īll nine tracks are versions of Nick Cave songs.
Apart from its tougher seventh cut – evoking PJ Harvey if she were collaborating with Mazzy Star – this opener establishes the tone of Where The Viaduct Looms, a collaborative album by Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips.
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