WATCH: The Flaming Lips feat. Mick Jones Release New Video for “Giant Baby”

The track comes off their recent “King’s Mouth: Music and Songs.”
WATCH: The Flaming Lips feat. Mick Jones Release New Video for “Giant Baby”

The track comes off their recent “King’s Mouth: Music and Songs.”

Words: Kim March

August 30, 2019

The Flaming Lips have a new video for “Giant Baby,” filmed in Oklahoma City and Los Angeles and directed by frontman Wayne Coyne, with a brief cameo from friend and comedian Fred Armisen. 

The track comes off their record King’s Mouth: Music and Songs, which features narration from Mick Jones of The Clash and also doubles as the soundtrack to Coyne’s art installation. King’s Mouth: Immerse Heap Trip Fantasy Experience details the making of the record, one of the group’s most ambitious to date. Coyne wrote of the project, “The King’s Mouth immersive/child-like qualities are born from the same spark and womb as The Flaming Lips’ live performances.”

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Wayne Coyne has a new baby at home, so perhaps that experience shaped both his interest in the child-like and the visual for “Giant Baby,” a characteristically colorful, trippy jaunt in which Coyne & co. dance beneath strings of neon LED lights and seem both joyous and at peace. 

Watch the video and see The Flaming Lips’ upcoming tour dates below. 

Flaming Lips Tour Dates:

Sep 01 Prato, ITL Piazza Duomo
Sep 05 Edinburgh, UK Usher Hall
Sep 06 Manchester, UK Manchester Academy
Sep 07 London, UK O2 Brixton Academy
Sep 13 Chicago, IL Riot Fest Chicago
Sep 20 Louisville, KY Bourbon and Beyond Festival
Sep 28 Brisbane, AU Fortitude Music Hall
Sep 30 Sydney, AU Sydney Opera House
Oct 01 Sydney, AU Sydney Opera House
Oct 03-04 Melbourne, AU Melbourne International Arts Festival
Oct 10-13 Lake Perris, CA Desert Daze
Nov 08 Austin, TX Levitation – Stubb’s BBQ
Dec 07 Cholula, Puebla, MX Festival Cantina