Flaming Lips to release a song a month

The Flaming Lips have revealed plans to record and release a new song every month during 2011.

Frontman Wayne Coyne told Rolling Stone that the band's would shy away from a conventional follow-up to last year's Embryonic.

Coyne said: "We'll start in late January, though I'm not sure if we'll get together exactly by then. With this new thing, we're going to spend a lot of time recording at our houses or wherever we are at.

"We'll try to release a song a month and document the song in the making, whether it takes us three or five days or a week. It's gonna be, 'We're working on a song and it's gonna be up by Friday.' We just want to [release material] some other way."

He continued: "Not that I think the old way was boring, but to spend another two years with the same 13 songs, it's just like 'f**k'. I think we're going to just start to do things and put it out. Once we get 11 or 12 songs together, maybe we'll do something else with it.

"We want to try to live through our music as we create it instead of it being a collection of the last couple years of our lives."

Coyne added: "The dilemma is whether we're going to release it on vinyl, cereal boxes or some of it on toys that we make. Sometimes, the music is the simplest part of any of these things.

"We'll be making these little videos that connect in the end to a bigger movie we'll be making next year as well. It sounds like a bunch of f**kin' work, but it's different way of thinking about songs than just holing up."

He added that the band would work with their long-time producer Dave Fridmann in Oklahoma.

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