The Flaming Lips preparing new collections featuring early and rare material

19 March 2018, 17:47 | Written by Laurence Day

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Psych masters The Flaming Lips are set to shed a spotlight on their early material from the late '80s with two new collections due out in the coming months.

Scratching The Door: The First Recordings Of The Flaming Lips is a 19-track compilation featuring "music recorded by the band's original lineup" due out 20 April via Rhino/Warner. The second release - titled Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings Of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 - assembles the group's four albums released via Restless into one package - it's out 25 May.

As well as Hear It Is (1986), Oh My Gawd!!! (1987), Telepathic Surgery (1989), and In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares) (1990), Seeing The Unseeable... will also come with two full discs of rarities. Over 40 tracks will be available digitally for the first time as part of this collection.

Scratching The Door... selects cuts from The Flaming Lips' original incarnation (when frontman Wayne Coyne's brother Mark was in the band on lead vocals). It features the band's first two demo tapes, plus their self-released EP from 1984.

Longtime producer David Fridmann has remastered all the material on the releases from original tape, with the band's Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins assisting.

The Flaming Lips' most recent record, Oczy Mlody, was released last year.