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Oczy Mlody [ˈɔt͡ʂɨ ˈmwɔdɨ] (an erroneous Polish phrase, which could mean: "the young eyes") is the fourteenth studio album by experimental rock band The Flaming Lips, released on January 13, 2017, on Warner Bros in the US and Bella Union in the UK.

After touring for The Terror wrapped up in 2014, longtime member Kliph Scurlock was supposedly fired from the band because he called out Christina Fallin – musician, friend of Wayne Coyne, and daughter of Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma – for cultural appropriation after Christina wore a Native American headdress. Around all of this occurring, the band became affiliated with Miley Cyrus, who appeared on a track-by-track reinterpretation of the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles called With a Little Help from My Fwends. The following year, they assisted her with recording Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, and went on tour as her backing band in 2015 in support of the album. All of this helped accumulate an idea for what Oczy Mlody was going to sound like, which is generally described as a back-to-basics of the pop sensibilities touched upon with 1999's The Soft Bulletin and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, while also building up on the ambient feel of their last album, The Terror, and topping it off with an influence of Miley Cyrus's most recent album thrown all into one sound.

In two videos released in late 2016, frontman Wayne Coyne describes how he found the album title and some of the song titles and lyrics in a second-hand book, a Polish translation of Erskine Caldwell's Close to Home, titled Blisko domu. He and the band liked the words primarily due to their sound, rather than their meaning.

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