Kliph Scurlock left the band

In March 2014, longtime drummer and percussionist Kliph Scurlock left the band. He was replaced by two new members – drummer, percussionist, and keyboardist Matt Duckworth Kirksey, and percussionist Nicholas Ley – expanding the band again to a septet. In May, Scurlock claimed he had been fired for negative comments about Wayne Coyne’s friend Christina Fallin , the daughter of Oklahoma’s governor and leader of a band called Pink Pony. Fallin had recently been criticized for cultural appropriation after she wore a Native American headdress in a publicity photo. According to Scurlock, his criticism of Fallin’s actions led to conflict with Coyne and his dismissal. In response, Drozd said, “[t]his Lips/Kliph bullshit has gone too far. We parted ways because of the usual band musical differences. The rest has been blown way out.” Coyne went even further, calling Scurlock a “pathological liar” and stated that he never meant his defense of Fallin, which included posting a photo of his dog in a feathered headdress, to be offensive but that he was “very sorry, to anybody that is following my Instagram or my Twitter, if I offended anybody of any religion, any race, any belief system. I would say you shouldn’t follow my tweets; you shouldn’t even probably want to be a Flaming Lips fan because we don’t really have any agenda.”