King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced full details of their new album ‘Phantom Island’ and shared the horn-drenched single from the record – ‘Deadstick’.
The LP, which is the Melbourne sextet’s 27th studio effort, embraces the “symphonic and embroidering their tangles of lysergic riff and melody with strings and horns and woodwind,” according to a press release.
The LP was written during the sessions for the band’s 2024 studio album, ‘Flight B741’, and recorded alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It is out on June 13 via The Australian band’s own label (p)doom records and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here.
The band have also shared their latest single from the record and artwork, which you can listen to/view below. They previously shared the album’s title track.
Speaking about the video, director Guy Tyzack: “‘Deadstick’ refers to when a plane propeller stops midflight so I decided to have a massive plane made out of cardboard crash land into a beautiful location.”
He added: “The song is big and chaotic so then I went about casting swing dancers and eccentric extras to fill the landscape.”
The tracklist for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s ‘Phantom Island’ is:
1. ‘Phantom Island’
2. ‘Deadstick’
3. ‘Lonely Cosmos’
4. ‘Eternal Return’
5. ‘Panpsych’
6. ‘Spacesick’
7. ‘Aerodynamic’
8. ‘Sea of Doubt’
9. ‘Silent Spirit’
10. ‘Grow Wings And Fly’
Elsewhere, the band recently announced that they will be hitting the road for a UK and European orchestral tour led by conductor/musical director Chad Kelly.
“He brings this wealth of musical awareness to his chameleon-like arrangements,” frontman Stu Mackenzie said of Kelly.
“We come from such different worlds – he plays Mozart and Bach and uses the same harpsichords they did, and tunes them the exact same way. But he’s obsessed with microtonal music, too, and all this nerdy stuff like me.”
The shows include a date at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where they will perform with Covent Garden Sinfonia. You can find any remaining tickets here and view the tour dates here.
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