The announcement arrives with a 2,300-word post from Wayne Coyne

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Two months after they drop the 20th anniversary edition of At War With the Mystics , The Flaming Lips will return with their first new album in seven years (and 17th in total). The Teardrop Throbs , the band’s debut on Third Man Records, arrives January 22. The release also marks the psych-rockers first LP in 35 years to not feature multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, who is no longer in the band (reasons for why vary depending on the party ). Teardrop is led by single “God Will Control the Werewolves”—which you can listen to below—along with a sequel to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ’ “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell.”

“I’ve always liked it when songs from previous records get a new rendering,” Coyne said about “Ego Tripping Part Two” in a very long, grammatically insane statement accompanying the release (you can read the full 2,000-plus word missive below).…