Flying Lotus shares wild new music video featuring David Lynch

Flying Lotus is back. It's been five years since FlyLo's last album, You’re Dead!, but the multi-disciplinary LA-based artist known to his pals as Steven Ellison is back this month with Flamagra, which features a frankly ridiculous panoply of big-name collaborators and guest artists.

Out on Warp next month, the new record is described as "an astral afro-futurist masterpiece of deep soul, cosmic dust, and startling originality." Among the eye-catching contributors are Thundercat, whose brilliant album Drunk was produced by Ellison, and George Clinton, who appeared in FlyLo's wild 2017 horror-comedy hallucination Kuso as a doctor who has a cockroach living in his anus who often comes out during patient examinations to deliver diagnoses.

Another collaborator who stands out is legendary filmmaker David Lynch, who provides vocals to The Fire is Coming, the first offering from the album. Also released today is The Fire is Coming's video, which features Lynch as the voice inside a wolf's mouth, who's telling a story to a group of wolf-children. The freaky promo is directed by Lotus and British animator David Firth, who's best known for his creepy creation Salad Fingers. Take a look at the video above or on YouTube.

Flamagra cover

Other guests on the 25 track album include Anderson .Paak, Little Dragon, Tierra Whack, Denzel Curry, Shabazz Palaces, Toro y Moi and Solange. “I’d been working on stuff for the past five years, but it was always all over the place," says Lotus. He explains, though, that he settled on a curious concept for the album. "I’d always had this thematic idea in mind – a lingering concept about fire, an eternal flame sitting on a hill. Some people love it, some people hate it. Some people would go on dates there and some people would burn love letters in the fire.”

You can find out what that all means when Flamagra is released 24 May by Warp – the album is up for pre-order here