The album of ‘the Flaming Lips meet Nick Cave’ was finished about a year ago, was mastered by Dave Fridmann, and will be released on October 25.

She covered ‘Girl in Amber’ and the band was so impressed that they recorded an entire album of Nick Cave covers! Nell worked on 9 songs during spring 2020, in a spare bedroom at her home, working with borrowed equipment: she recorded the vocals, while the Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, and Michael) worked on the production and played most of the instruments on most of the songs. ‘Ì thought it was a really interesting choice.’Ĭoyne had excellent reasons to suggest Cave: he knew Nell would not be familiar with his repertoire and that she wouldn’t have preconceived notions. nme.com - The cover was recorded as part of a Nick Cave covers album alongside 13-year-old fan Nell Smith Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on The Flaming. ‘Ì actually did not know who Nick Cave was before he suggested it,’ says Nell to CBCNews. Wayne Coyne suggested she should cover Nick Cave. Because of the pandemic, it didn’t happen and Nell emailed some cover tunes to Oklahoma to be backed up by the band. Nell and her dad became friends with Wayne Coyne and the Lips invited the Smith family to Oklahoma to record with them. She truly connected with the band and was a regular at their shows, singing front row, wearing a colorful parrot suit. Nell Smith, a 13-year-old from Fernie, British Columbia, has been a fan of the Flaming Lips since she saw them live when she was just 10. I didn’t really expect to see their names connected in a project, although, if you pass the confetti and balloons, there is more in common than you would previously think: Their shows carry the same intensity, while Wayne Coyne and Nick Cave manage to build this same strong connection with their respective audiences, despite their very different vocal prowess. Can you imagine two artistic worlds more different? Their shows are dark tempests of intense emotions while the last albums, ‘Push the Sky Away,’ ‘Ghosteen,’ ‘Carnage,’ and especially ‘Skeleton Tree,’ exude some heartbreaking darkness and sadness. Meanwhile, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds could just be the opposite. Debut album available to order now Girl In Amber 3:49. Their shows are super happy cartoons coming alive inside giant plastic bubbles. Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips announce Where the Viaduct Looms - pre-order. They are the Wizards of Oz with guitars, dancing in the middle of glitter-covered furry animals. The Flaming Lips’ version of ‘Girl In Amber’ emerged last week as part of a whole Nick Cave covers. The Flaming Lips are all about multicolor balloons launched over a rainbow of confetti. CREDIT: Getty Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on The Flaming Lips’ recent cover of the Bad Seeds track ‘Girl In Amber’, which they recorded with 13-year-old fan Nell Smith. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' B-Sides & Rarities Part II will arrive 22 October, and is available to pre-order now.Nell Smith and Wayne Coyne: The Flaming Lips meet Nick Cave Where the Viaduct Looms covers album will be released 25 October. Last month Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announced their B-Sides & Rarities Part II album with a previously unreleased track titled ' Vortex'. Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling. I always found it difficult to step away from this particular song and sing it with its necessary remove, just got so twisted up in the words, I guess. This version of 'Girl in Amber' is just lovely, I was going to say Nell Smith inhabits the song, but that’s wrong, rather she vacates the song, in a way that I could never do. I have a whole lot of time for The Flaming Lips - really like a lot of their stuff, have been an admirer since watching them play most evenings on the Lollapalooza Festival tour in ’94, maybe even sang with them there, and wrote a song for one of their records. On his The Red Hanf Files Q+A site, Cave responded to a fan asking about the covers album and their cover of 'Girl in Amber', leading Cave to reveal that he's 'a fan'.Ĭave wrote, 'I didn’t know about this project, so thank you for alerting me to it. At the start of the month The Flaming Lips and a 13-year-old fan of theirs called Nell Smith announced Where the Viaduct Looms, an album of Nick Cave covers, and their cover of 'Girl in Amber' is the first taster of the covers album.

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