In a new report from Billboard, it seems that The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus will continue their creative collaboration into 2015. Cyrus was featured heavily on the Lips’ 2014 release, With A Little Help From My Fwends, which paid tribute to The Beatles’ classic album Sgt. Peppers.
Now, it seems the friendship between Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne and Miley Cyrus has carried into a new project. The duo wrote and recorded seven songs together last year, and the tracks are almost finished with production. The album is untitled, as of yet.
Coyne talks extensively about Cyrus in the new interview, saying “She does the pop thing so great, so it still feels pop, but a slightly wiser, sadder, more true version… Some of [the new project] reminds me of Pink Floyd and Portishead.” He continued, saying “she realizes she’s Miley Cyrus, but she doesn’t act like she’s all powerful… [and] she can f—ing sing. She can do 100 takes, and they’ll all be different and good.”
He goes on to describe how Cyrus was actually mixing her own vocals after a take, saying “Her studio is just a little room with a desk and Miley was sitting there mixing. I was like, ‘I can’t picture Beyoncé doing this!’ It’s not a putdown of Beyoncé. I just don’t see her recording her own vocals and then EQ’ing it. It’s so punk rock!”
If this is how their “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” sounds, we just can’t help but wonder what the all-original Cyrus/Coyne collaborations will be like…
[Photo via Jeff Kravitz/Billboard]