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That’s when I really woke up to the idea of this as a fairytale from the future.” “And I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s what we wanna do.’ I like the idea that if we’re excited about something, maybe you’ll be excited about it, too.

“He was full of energy, like an excited child you’re seeing how cool this stuff is through him,” he relates. He spent the evening recently at an art gallery with Damien Hirst and was particularly gratified by the artist’s childlike glee as he dashed around the exhibits, touching everything in sight. “I guess druggy music for adults who still have the potential to be childlike and excited.” And that’s not even mentioning the frogs and wizards… And all these decadent shenanigans are meant to take place inside “a gated community that has been made into a replicant fantasy city where the mega-mega rich folks live and have self-indulgent psycho parties where everyone takes the drug and has sex followed by painful emotional therapy sessions where every primal desire is allowed and encouraged while riding unicorns”. One suggestion is that it’s the name of “the current cool powerful party drug of choice”, designed to “send you into the deepest slumber during which you’re able to sleep off withdrawals and cravings and wake up sober”. A mood that might find him at any moment discussing the proximity of his band The Flaming Lips’ latest music, as featured on 15th album Oczy Mlody, to the sound of rapper A$AP Rocky and original psychedelicat Syd Barrett “getting trapped in a fairytale from the future”, or perhaps detailing the various possible meanings of the LP title. That is to say, playful and prone to mercurial flights of fancy that Lewis Carroll might consider far-fetched. Wayne Coyne is in a distinctly Wayne Coyne-ish mood.

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