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Aidin Vaziri | 05.13.2009

Wayne Coyne says the Flaming Lips are ready to release their first ever double-album later this year. Speaking to Billboard, the Oklahoma psychedelic-rock band’s frontman said that their latest collection of songs, tentatively titled Embryonic, needed the extra space to fully stretch out.

“Somewhere along the way it occurred to me that we should do a double album,” Coyne said. “Just this idea that you can kind of weave a couple of themes into there and you can sort of sprawl a little bit. Our past couple of records we've always had this little dilemma, like how many songs do you put on? How many instruments do you put on? What's the focus?”

He added, “And some of my favorite records – thinking Beatles White Album, Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti and even some of the longer things that the Clash have done – part of the reason I like them is that they're not focused. They're kind of like a free-for-all and go everywhere.”

The group still has serious work to do on the follow-up to 2006’s At War with the Mystics if it plans on wrapping up recording for the new set before launching its tour of Europe, Australia and the states in June. Only 13 tracks have been written so far, according to Billboard, and Coyne wants to add at least eight or nine more.

Maybe he should spend less time running around in giant plastic balls and more hunkering down in the studio.