The Flaming Lips Explain New Album ‘The Terror’

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd: Keeping fans--and each other--guessing.

“The one song that was probably the peak of our insanity would be the song that goes for 24 hours,” says Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, perched on a purple couch in midtown Manhattan next to bandmate Steven Drozd. “And you can only get it packaged inside of an actual human skull.”

The song in question was a compromise of sorts for the Flaming Lips, who had initially considered writing and recording one t...