Australian psych rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have unveiled the details for their upcoming 28th studio album, “Alien Metal“. While the ever-prolific outfit have been slowing down on the volume of their output lately, this new outing doesn’t skimp on ambition. This time around the band are diving deep into EDM and rave music — genres they’ve been experimenting with for some time now via their ‘rave shows’.
The song “Level 5” leads off this new aural adventure and comes with music video directed by Hayden Somerville. The band used a modular synthesizer as the backbone for this new release, which they intend to have out later this summer via p(doom) Records.
Vocalist/guitarist, etc. Stu Mackenzie said of the experience working with a Eurorack synthesizer on this album, “It completely rewired my brain. I was like, ‘I’m going to forget everything I know about music and relearn it all from scratch’.”
That process led to a lot of failed experiments however, as Mackenzie relayed, “We’ve never scrapped so much material as we have for this album. Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated, created, recorded, deleted and started again.”
Multi-instrumentalist Joey Walker, who has been the band’s internal champion of techno and EDM influences, went on to say, “‘Alien Metal‘ goes really hard, but it also goes to really interesting places. And it feels unique – it feels like us, still.”
“Alien Metal” track listing:
01 – “Sapience“
02 – “Alien Metal“
03 – “Superheavy, Supercritical“
04 – “Kill For The Steel“
05 – “Level 5“
06 – “Rapid Alpha Decay“
07 – “Uqt“
Upcoming U.S. live shows from the band include:
08/14-16 Buena Vista, CO – Field Of Vision II Festival
08/20/ New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium (feat. Die Spitz & DJ Crenshaw)
08/21 New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium (feat. Die Spitz & DJ Crenshaw)
08/22 New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium (rave show)
08/23 Brooklyn, NY – Under The K Bridge Park (rave show) (feat. .VRIL)
