{"id":2444644,"date":"2019-05-27T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=840704"},"modified":"2019-05-27T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:22:27","slug":"hear-flaming-lips-mick-jones-sing-new-psychedelic-lullaby-giant-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-flaming-lips-mick-jones-sing-new-psychedelic-lullaby-giant-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Flaming Lips, Mick Jones Sing New Psychedelic Lullaby \u2018Giant Baby\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/9980666q.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-flaming-lips\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-flaming-lips\" data-tag=\"the-flaming-lips\">The Flaming Lips<\/a> tapped the Clash\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mick-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mick-jones\" data-tag=\"mick-jones\">Mick Jones<\/a> to serve as narrator on their surreal new song, \u201cGiant Baby,\u201d from their new album, <em>King\u2019s Mouth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The track, which was released over the weekend, opens with Jones recounting the story of an oversized toddler obsessed with outer space over a serene melody that periodically dips into something stranger. The song\u2019s psychedelic twinkle continues to move and shift as Wayne Coyne croons softly, \u201cOne night, I saw your face up in the sky\/In a cloud across the moon, it made me cry\/I could see my mother as she died\/In my head and in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In April, the Flaming Lips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flaming-lips-new-album-kings-mouth-record-store-day-801571\/\">released <em>King\u2019s Mouth<\/em><\/a> as a Record Store Day exclusive, pressing just 4,000 copies of the album on gold vinyl. After the run sold out, the band announced that the LP would be available on all formats July 19th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>King\u2019s Mouth<\/em> marks the Flaming Lips\u2019 15th studio album and follows their 2017 offering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-flaming-lips-make-a-miley-assisted-rock-opera-on-oczy-mlody-121860\/\"><em>Oczy Mlody<\/em><\/a>. Jones serves as narrator throughout the 12-track record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Flaming Lips will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-flaming-lips-summer-tour-dates-825899\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of <em>King\u2019s Mouth<\/em> July 18th at the Ogden Amphitheater in Ogden, Utah. The run wraps August 7th at the Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flaming-lips-mick-jones-new-song-giant-baby-840704\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flaming Lips tapped the Clash\u2019s Mick Jones to serve as narrator on their surreal new song, \u201cGiant Baby,\u201d from their new album, King\u2019s Mouth. The track, which was released over the weekend, opens with Jones recounting the story of an oversized toddler obsessed with outer space over a serene melody that periodically dips into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 19:09:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}