Flaming Lips to release new album "The Terror" on April 2 in the U.S.

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips and Warner Bros. Records announced today the long-awaited release of “The Terror,” the band’s 13th studio album, on April 2 in the U.S.

The album also will be released April 1 through Bella Union in Europe, according to a news release.

Frontman Wayne Coyne says in the release, “Why would we make this music that is ‘The Terror’ – this bleak, disturbing record? I don’t really want to know the answer that I think is coming. Maybe this is the beginning of the answer.”

“The Terror” is billed as a bold and expressive journey that has evolved over The Lips’ nearly 30-year tended garden of sonic delights that ebbs and flows with extraordinary splashes of darkness and light, pleasure and pain, chaos and order. As we’ve come to know The Flaming Lips, the real beauty lies with the knowledge that to expect the unexpected is all part of the manic fun.