American Head

On March 23, 2020, Drozd announced that the band’s sixteenth studio album, American Head , was due for release in the summer. The band officially announced the album’s release date as September 11, 2020, along with the single “My Religion Is You” on June 6, 2020. The album included a duet with American country singer Kacey Musgraves , “God and the Policeman”, with Musgraves also providing harmonies and backing vocals on the songs “Watching the Lightbugs Grow” and “Flowers of Neptune 6”. During the COVID-19 pandemic , while unable to perform regular concerts, the band put on a unique performance in their hometown of Oklahoma City on October 12, 2020. During the show, both the band and the audience were encased in inflatable human-sized bubbles – the kind with which Coyne would often use to walk over the audience during the band’s usual shows. They performed in this fashion on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that same year, and again in 2021. In 2022, The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film , a documentary film covering these experimental concerts, was released.