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Enjoy a night of psychedelic rock with The Flaming Lips at House of Blues

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. Amy Harris / The Associated Press

By Christopher Gavin

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The world may need The Flaming Lips now like never before.

A little over a year after releasing its 16th album, “American Head,” the psychedelic rock musical caravan of frontman Wayne Coyne returns to Boston, offering escapism at a time when reality never seemed harsher.

COVID-19 — and a rising tide of the Delta variant that’s making for a shaky, if not delayed “return to normal” — has crept into every facet of life, making the Flaming Lips’ other-worldly, sonic escapades all the more enticing.

Indeed savoring the good times have been a core essence of the band for decades, if not since its inception. (Take, for example, “Do You Realize??” a fan favorite from 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” that transforms questions of life, death, and the universe around us into a vessel of boundless gratitude for what we all have right now.)

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But the COVID-weary can also take comfort: Coyne appears dedicated to making sure our collective journeys elsewhere at the House of Blues don’t come at the expense of COVID safety.

“Tonight, we don’t want you to lose your mind at all, because we want you to be very aware that there may be people around you who are vulnerable to this never-ending virus,” he told a crowd at a California show in August, according to The Orange County Register.

“So we’re going to start the show and be happy,” Coyne continued. “Don’t do anything that puts this whole thing in peril. It’s up to us. Please take care of each other as best you can.

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“I don’t want anyone going home later feeling that this got out of hand. We love you, and we’re so glad you’re here.”

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