{"id":44007,"date":"2021-11-11T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=44007"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:35:52","slug":"teen-nell-legendary-the-flaming-lips-announce-new-album-of-nick-cave-covers-the-ship-song-and-new-video-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=44007","title":{"rendered":"Teen Nell & Legendary The Flaming Lips Announce New Album of Nick Cave Covers, “The Ship Song” And New Video Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Announce Where the Viaduct Looms Album<\/div>\n
Due Out November 26 via Bella Union \/ [PIAS]<\/div>\n
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Release “The Ship Song” Official Video<\/div>\n
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+ Watch “The Ship Song” Official Video<\/a><\/div>\n
+ Pre-Order Where The Viaduct Looms<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Today,\u00a0Nell & The Flaming Lips\u00a0announce the release of\u00a0Where the Viaduct Looms, out November 26th via Bella Union \/ [PIAS]. The LP is comprised of nine Nick Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old\u00a0Nell Smith\u00a0and instrumentation and production by\u00a0The Flaming Lips. The album was mastered by\u00a0Dave Fridmann\u00a0at Tarbox Road Studios. To mark the announcement, Nell and the Lips yesterday shared a video of their cover of \u201cThe Ship Song,” which Consequence of Sound<\/a> premiered.<\/div>\n
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This inspiring and heartwarming story begin when Nell Smith, originally from Leeds (UK), moved to Canada and first met Wayne Coyne at the age of 12 at The Flaming Lips\u2019 headline show at the Sled Island Festival in Calgary (2018) with her family. Nell had already attended several Lips shows and was a regular at the front of the stage, dressed in a parrot\u00a0costume and screaming out the band\u2019s songs. Coyne soon began to notice the kid in the parrot suit and sang a David Bowie cover directly to her at the show in Calgary, with Nell singing every word back.<\/div>\n
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A musical bond formed as Coyne stayed in contact with Nell and her father, Jude. Nell started to learn guitar and as their creative relationship began to flourish, Nell began to write her own songs.<\/div>\n
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When a planned trip to record with the band in Oklahoma had to be cancelled due to Covid Coyne suggested Nell\u00a0record some Nick Cave songs and email them to Oklahoma to be backed by the band. Coyne chose Nick Cave because Nell didn’t know him and wouldn\u2019t have preconceived notions as to how to sing the songs. The first track they recorded was a cover of \u201cGirl In Amber,” the video of which Nell shared late last year. Click\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to watch.<\/div>\n
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Speaking about the collaboration, Coyne comments:<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always great to meet excited, young creative people. 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. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.”<\/div>\n
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When asked about the experience, Nell comments:<\/div>\n
\u201cI still can\u2019t really believe it. It was a really steep learning curve but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of the songs that I kept going. I hadn\u2019t 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. It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Nell adds:<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so excited to see this turn into a real record release. I’m super happy to be working with Bella Union and really looking forward to everyone hearing the album.”<\/div>\n
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In a pleasing addition to the tale, the great man himself has given his seal of approval to the collaboration. Alerted to the cover by a fan,\u00a0Nick Cave\u00a0took to his website The Red Hand Files to write: \u201cThis version of \u2018Girl in Amber\u2019 is just lovely, I was going to say Nell Smith inhabits the song, but that\u2019s wrong, rather she\u00a0vacates\u00a0the song, in a way that I could never do,\u201d said Cave.\u00a0\u201cI 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 shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling. I just love it. I\u2019m a fan.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a01. Girl In Amber<\/div>\n
2. Weeping Song<\/div>\n
3. Into My Arms<\/div>\n
4. O Children<\/div>\n
5. The Kindness Of Strangers<\/div>\n
6. No More Shall We Part<\/div>\n
7. Red Right Hand<\/div>\n
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