![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One building from this intriguing first shot. Hopefully, Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips will make another album soon – and in the old-fashioned way. (Submitted by Jude Smith) A 13-year-old who struck up an unlikely. music merch community Where The Viaduct Looms by Nell and the Flaming Lips Share / Embed Wishlist supported by marcian A straight through listen. Although more dense and harder edged, the only analogous album coming to mind is 2008’s (great) Scarlett Johansson album Anywhere I Lay My Head. Nell Smith, left, in her parrot suit, with Wayne Coyne singing to her from a bubble at a Flaming Lips show in Calgary. Nell and the Flaming Lips We've updated our Terms of Use. It does not matter that these are Nick Cave songs – they are transmuted. The album was mastered by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios. Although some treatments have been given to Smith's voice, the generally subtle, unobtrusive band backings do not swamp her. Where the Viaduct Looms comprises nine Nick Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by The Flaming Lips. Where The Viaduct Looms is direct and affecting. For this checked-ambition initial outing, he suggested the songs of Nick Cave as she had not heard of him so would lack preconceived notions of how they would be sung. This was meant to be a studio album made at Coyne and Co's Oklahoma base but instead – for reasons of the pandemic – Smith recorded her vocals and guitar, and sent the tracks to Coyne after which the band added their contributions. Inspired, she began learning guitar and writing songs, and Coyne suggested they join forces. She and her family had moved from Leeds to Calgary, where she first saw The Flaming Lips at the Sled Island Festival. Three years on, Where The Viaduct Looms arrives. Smith had been seeing The Flaming Lips since she was 12 and was noticed stage-side by frontman Wayne Coyne as she sang along with their songs in a parrot outfit. It’s her first LP.Īll nine tracks are versions of Nick Cave songs. Apart from its tougher seventh cut – evoking PJ Harvey if she were collaborating with Mazzy Star – this opener establishes the tone of Where The Viaduct Looms, a collaborative album by Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips. ![]()
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