Wednesday Music News

Long-running experimental psych band The Flaming Lips are compiling their early work into a six-CD box set to reissued May 25 via Warner Bros called Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990. They're also releasing a single disc compilation entitled Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips on April 20 via Warner Bros. "Scratching the Door highlights tracks recorded by The Flaming Lips' original line-up, which featured Wayne Coyne's brother Mark on vocals. The album includes the band's first and second cassette demos, in addition to The Flaming Lips' first self-released EP, which has been remastered from the original 1/4" analog tape master." The band has also added more dates to their upcoming tour. Don't miss them when they perform Upstream Music Fest + Summit on Saturday, June 2. [ Under the Radar ]

Scottish Mercury Prize-winning trio Young Fathers have released the third single from their upcoming album Cocoa Sugar today. "Toy" continues their streak of quality experimental tracks that are bringing them further and further away from their initial labeling of "hip hop." The frantic, skittering track follows previous singles "In My View" and "Lord." Cocoa Sugar is out March 9 via Ninja Tune and follows up 2015's acclaimed White Men Are Black Men Too and 2014's Mercury Prize-winning debut DEAD. [ Paste ]

Another Scottish trio (albeit with a very different sound) Chvrches have shared a new song today featuring The National's Matt Berninger. "My Enemy" is the second single off the forthcoming album Love Is Dead and holds up the band's previous statement that the album would be "the most pop stuff we've done." Chvrches worked with an outside producer for the first time on Love Is Dead, Grammy Award-winning Greg Kurstin worked on nine of the album's 13 tracks while Steve Mac produced the rest. Love Is Dead is out May 25 on Glassnote. [ Pitchfork ] 

King Tuff is returning with a new album called The Other on April 13th. Previously, Kyle Thomas had shared the title track and "Psycho Star," showing that this album was going in a very different direction from the garage rock of his previous records. The third single, "Raindrop Blues," was shared today and keeps on in the new direction. It's a slick, funky dance jam complete with saxophone and bass. The song comes with a video of Thomas hanging out and dancing around his 1982 blue Subaru Brat. The Other is out April 13 on Sub Pop. King Tuff will play the Crocodile on Friday, June 1. [ Consequence of Sound ]