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Flaming Lips Collaborate With MGMT & Yeah Yeah Yeah

• 19th Aug 2009

MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O make guest appearances on The Flaming Lips' next album, frontman Wayne Coyne has revealed.

The US band are set to release a a double album, 'Embryonic' in the autumn. The release date is strongly tipped to be October 12, though this is yet to be officially confirmed.

“We have MGMT doing a song with us and we have Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs doing a couple songs with us,” frontman Wayne Coyne told Swiss music site Die Klangschau of the band's guests. “For the Karen O tracks, I just called her up in her hotel room and we just did it right over the telephone. It's pretty absurd.”

The band are set to play a series of UK live dates in November.

The Flaming Lips will play:

London Troxy (November 10, 11)
Portsmouth Guildhall (13)
Glasgow O2 Academy (15)
Manchester Academy (16)
Birmingham Academy (17)