The Flaming Lips have an unlikely new collaborator in the form of Miley Cyrus

Could The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne be Miley Cyrus' biggest fan? They're an unexpected pair and, then again, not so unexpected after all. Both are known for their incredible charm, their wild-child insouciance, their uncompromising irreverence, their commitment to music and having fun.

The two brought their talents together in the crucible of The Flaming Lips latest release, a zany homage to The Beatles titled . The album is a track-by-track remake of The Beatles' groundbreaking 1967 that is equal parts faithful cover and collective head-trip. Considering The Flaming Lips' own psychedelic aural history, is not a surprising choice.

Nor is the homage a total first for The Flaming Lips, who will be bringing their live show to Clockenflap at the end of November.

In 2009, they covered Pink Floyd's 1973 with Henry Rollins. Then there was the recreation of The Stone Roses' 1989 eponymous debut album. But is both more musically ambitious and more intensely collaborative, incorporating voices as diverse as Moby, Foxygen, Tegan and Sara, and, well, Miley Cyrus.

Coyne and Cyrus met through Twitter. "We knew for a while that she was a fan," Coyne recalls. "We knew her from , but we could sort of tell, even back then, from artists that she would cover, that she had cool taste in music. When she became the new, completely freaked-out version of that she is now, I think it was known in the world that we loved her. She was aware that we liked her, and she liked us."