The ever-prolific King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as soon as once more have a brand new album on the best way. Entitled Phantom Island, the orchestra-backed follow-up to final 12 months’s Flight b741 arrives on June thirteenth through the band’s personal p(doom) Information.
Marking the twenty seventh studio album from King Gizzard, Phantom Island sees the Aussie psych rockers teaming up with musician and composer Chad Kelly as they embark on one more sonic journey. Based on the press launch, the songs originate from the Flight b4741 classes, although as a substitute of doubling down on that undertaking’s rock ‘n’ roll, the band as a substitute discovered inspiration of their 2023 efficiency the Hollywood Bowl. Backstage on the present, King Gizzard related with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, planting the seed for his or her curiosity in orchestral music.
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“The songs felt like they wanted this different vitality and color, that we wanted to splash some completely different paint on the canvas,” frontman Stu Mackenzie said. “We didn’t know we have been going to have an orchestra dubbed on high after we have been recording. If we had, that might have actually modified the songs. However we went into it very free and simple. The songs have been written in a really ‘improv’ means, stitched collectively from a number of takes or longer jams… It feels such as you’re within the room with the band and the orchestra, that we’re all in the identical room collectively.”
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Final 12 months, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard introduced that they’d be embarking on an orchestral tour in the summertime of 2025 (see the complete record of dates beneath and choose up tickets right here). To accompany that announcement, in addition they shared a brand new music referred to as “Phantom Island.” Now, it’s all beginning to make sense…
Revisit the title monitor of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album, “Phantom Island,” beneath.
Phantom Island Art work:
* = orchestral present
^ = Rave set