Produced by: The Flaming Lips Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips have joined forces for a new album, Where The Viaduct Looms, which aims to tackle 9 Nick Cave classics and deep cuts.
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. Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips give new life to 9 Nick Cave classic and deep cuts on Where the Viaduct Looms. 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. “I didn’t know about this project, so thank you for alerting me to it,” reads Cave’s response. Apparently, Cave was made aware of the cover by a fan, which prompted him to react to the cover on his site The Red Hand Files. In regards to the cover, Cave fully approves. The album will serve as a collaboration with Smith and is expected to drop on October 25. Nell Smith, originally from Leeds (UK), moved to Canada and first met. The cover will appear on Where The Viaduct Looms, a cover album by The Flaming Lips that will feature songs by Nick Cave. Nell and the Lips have previously shared videos for Girl In Amber and The Ship Song. Meanwhile, Coyne has also been dabbling in entrepreneurship by launching his own cannabis brand.“Girl In Amber” originally appeared on the band’s sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree, which dropped in September 2016.
In Novemeber, the Lips will be embarking on a massive world tour. Listen to it below, and read more about how this collaboration came to life via CBC News.Įarlier this year, The Flaming Lips approached live music in the time of COVID the best way they knew how: by dividing themselves and their audience members into human-sized hamster balls. She flips Cave’s original ballad into a hushed bedroom-pop jam, embellished with the band’s psychedelic guitars. “Girl in Amber” was the first track Smith and the Flaming Lips recorded together, with Smith taking the lead vocals. It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.” It was a really steep learning curve. I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. Smith added, “I still really can’t believe it, it was hard to get through all the songs but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of them that I kept going. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.” With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. In a statement, Coyne said, “It is always great to meet excited, young creative people. Their shared passion spawned the idea of a covers album, which was recorded remotely due to the pandemic. Alerted about the cover by a fan, Nick Cave took the version to his website, The Red Hand Files, to write: This version of Girl in Amber is just adorable. See how this album was rated and reviewed by the users of.
Just like that, Smith and her father exchanged contact information with Coyne and stayed in touch. User reviews & ratings for the album Girl in Amber by The Flaming Lips & Nell Smith. It didn’t take long for her to become a regular at their typically over-the-top performances, and after nabbing front-row spots a number of times, she caught the attention of the band’s frontman Wayne Coyne. Smith first became enamored with The Flaming Lips when she attended her first show of theirs about three years ago. That album, Where the Viaduct Looms, arrives October 25th, and today, Smith and The Flaming Lips offer a preview with their rendition of the 2016 Bad Seeds track “Girl in Amber.” Girl in Amber Lyrics: Some go on, some stay behind, some never move at all / Girl in amber, trapped forever, spinning down the hall / Let no part of her go. For 13-year-old Nell Smith, however, that dream came true by way of an album of Nick Cave covers, recorded with none other than The Flaming Lips. It’s not every day that youngsters get to collaborate with some of their biggest musical heroes.
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