 According to the Tarbox Roads Studio's website, the Flaming Lips began recording a new album with Dave Fridmann on January 27, 2016.In a June interview with Danish music blog Regnsky, Wayne Coyne said that a new album would come out in January 2017, even though they had originally planned for it to be released in October 2016.Wayne Coyne later confirmed in a September interview with Consequence of Sound, that they would release a new album at the beginning of 2017.