It pretty much takes an act of God to make a Monday pleasant here at SDM, but today we heard some news that pretty much did the trick. Wondering what type of news makes a Monday worth a damn. Well, according to Billboard.com the Flaming Lips are working on a new album. Excited? Wait, it gets better. Wayne describes the album as sounding “something like if John Lennon got together with Miles Davis and they discovered computers.”

Now that’s some kick ass news. Here is a little more info:

“Sometimes, there’s an element of song structure that me and [band member] Steven [Drozd] get really bored of,” he continues. “But you can play certain things and the computer f*cks with them in a way where it’s like, ‘Oh, I didn’t think of that before.’ Even as we speak I get excited. I’m thinking, ‘F*ck! This is going to be cool!’”

Coyne adds that the material has inadvertently taken on a kind of uplifting tone in the early going. “I’d never want to make it sound like ‘Imagine,’ but some of these songs accidentally fall into that category,” he says. “We never want to feel like we’ve got the answers to the world, while we’re quietly going insane on our own level.”

The album, which is yet to have a title or a release date, will be the follow up to 2006’s At War With the Mystics.

The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize (mp3)