King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard experience a horn-dominant boogie rock motif on “Deadstick,” the second observe to emerge from their twenty seventh album, Phantom Island. The undertaking will likely be launched June 13 by the band’s personal (p)doom data label and is a companion to final 12 months’s Flight b741, with the fabric on each albums having been written concurrently.
Followers who immerse themselves within the proverbial Gizzverse — whereby continuity exists between the themes and characters from the entire Australian band’s albums — could conclude that “Deadstick” chronicles the crash of the aircraft on the heart of Flight b741. Lyrics reminiscent of “panic within the cockpit / praying within the cabin / we’re all holding fingers” would appear to help that concept, as does the accompanying, Man Tyzack-directed video, during which bloody, flight suit-clad group member Ambrose Kenny-Smith awakens amid wreckage.
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“I began off eager to create a body that seemed like a panorama portray, with many alternative folks and set items dotted about,” Tyzack says of the clip. “‘Deadstick’ refers to when a aircraft propeller stops mid-flight, so I made a decision to have a large aircraft made out of cardboard crash land into a lovely location. The music is huge and chaotic, so then I went about casting swing dancers and eccentric extras to fill the panorama.”
The ten cuts on Phantom Island discover King Gizzard enveloped in elaborate string preparations and heavy orchestration, a primary for the group. “The songs felt like they wanted this different vitality and coloration, [and] that we wanted to splash some totally different paint on the canvas,” says group member Stu Mackenzie, who enlisted British conductor/arranger/keyboardist Chad Kelly to assist flesh out the sound. “He brings this wealth of musical consciousness to his chameleon-like preparations. We come from such totally different worlds — he performs Mozart and Bach and makes use of the identical harpsichords they did, and tunes them the very same means. However he’s obsessive about microtonal music, too, and all this nerdy stuff like me.”
And whereas Flight b741 appeared to have earthbound origins, Phantom Island options conflicted narrators singing about their lives in outer area or on alien worlds altogether. “After I was youthful, I used to be simply concerned about freaking folks out,” Mackenzie says, “however as I become old, I’m rather more concerned about connecting with folks.”
Starting in mid-Might, Gizzard will play multi-show residencies in such off-the-beaten-path European venues as a former jail in Vilnius, Lithuania, and a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater in Plovdiv, and in late July, the band will likely be again within the U.S. for his or her first-ever exhibits backed by native symphonies. Maybe better of all: Gizzard will debut their very own pageant, Subject of Imaginative and prescient, from Aug. 15-17 within the lovely outside setting of Buena Vista, Co., the place they are going to play three distinct units amid a lineup of associates reminiscent of Babe Rainbow, King Stingray and DJ Crenshaw.
The band will then go to Europe within the fall for exhibits divided between synth-powered “rave units” and native symphony-backed spotlights on Phantom Island. The tour begins Oct. 31 in Manchester, England, and wraps Nov. 15 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Listed here are King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s European tour dates:
Oct. 31: Manchester, UK @ Aviva Studios (Rave Set)
Nov. 1-2: London, UK @ Electrical Brixton (Rave Set)
Nov. 4: London, UK @ Royal Albert Corridor (w/ Covent Backyard Sinfonia)
Nov. 5: Paris, FR @ La Seine Musicale (w/ L’Orchestre Lamoureux)
Nov. 6: Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Rave Set)
Nov. 7: Den Bosch, NL @ MAINSTAGE (w/ Sinfonia Rotterdam)
Nov. 9: Gdansk, PL @ Inside Seaside Competition (w/ the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra)
Nov. 10: Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle (Rave Set)
Nov. 11: Prague, CZ @ SaSaZu (Rave Set)
Nov. 12: Vienna, AT @ Gasometer (Rave Set)
Nov. 14: Copenhagen, DK @ Poolen (Rave Set)
Nov. 15: Gothenburg, SE @ Gothenburg Movie Studios (Rave Set)
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