As anticipated, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will launch their twenty sixth studio album, Flight b741, Aug. 9 via their very own p(doom) data imprint. A primary single and video shall be unveiled July 9, based on a social media post from the Australian sextet. “Been working actual arduous on this one,” group member Stu Mackenzie wrote. “So excited for you all to listen to it! Thanks for flying.”
Flight b741 sports activities 10 new tracks, 5 of which have been debuted throughout Gizzard’s latest European tour. “Unhappy Pilot” chronicles a drunken airline worker who mulls leaving his “issues on the jet bridge,” whereas “Every day Blues” is a multi-faceted epic with nods to the Doorways and the Grateful Lifeless. “Le Risque” is a deliciously naughty serving to of four-to-the-floor disco rock with ELO swagger and a bridge nicked from Queen’s “Loopy Little Factor Known as Love,” whereas the stomping “Uncooked Really feel” has one of the crucial gleeful, singalong choruses within the Gizzard canon.
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Group member Ambrose Kenny-Smith beforehand described the brand new album to SPIN as “fairly rock / blues-rock — kind of like a basic ‘70s-sounding album. Plenty of vitality. Plenty of massive vibes happening.”
King Gizzard will return to North America on Aug. 15 in Washington, D.C., for visits to the largest venues they’ve played in the country to date, together with Los Angeles’ 18,000-capacity Kia Discussion board and the 21,600-capacity Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state. Beforehand, Kenny-Smith and Tame Impala/Pond principal Jay Watson will launch their first collaboration, In poor health Instances, on July 19 via (p)doom data.
Right here is the monitor checklist for Flight b741:
1. Mirage Metropolis
2. Antarctica
3. Uncooked Really feel
4. Subject of Imaginative and prescient
5. Hog Calling Contest
6. Le Risque
7. Flight b741
8. Unhappy Pilot
9. Rats tn the Sky
10. Every day Blues
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