Not even three months out from the discharge of the maximalist techno opus Alien Metallic, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will drop a companion album in an analogous musical model, Entropy, on Dec. 4 by its personal (p)doom data label. The primary single is the vocal effects-drenched “Rogue Wave,” maybe probably the most danceable and seemingly posi-vibes music ever written a couple of tsunami, and a pleasant nod again to the sound of Gizzard’s first digital challenge, 2021’s Butterfly 3000.
Alien Metallic was the band’s twenty eighth album and grew out of an hour-long improvisation on its sprawling Eurorack modular synthesizer rig, nicknamed Nathan. That file’s eight tracks all occupied the identical key (F-sharp) and tempo (143 beats per minute), yielding a darkish, propulsive assortment that drew on techno, jungle, home and IDM. Entropy emerged from the identical prolonged recording periods, however took a distinct path.
“Of all of the recordings we did with the Eurorack, there have been all the time these two jams that felt actually good [and] actually totally different,” group member Stu Mackenzie explains. The band initially meant to complete and launch each albums collectively, however Alien Metallic demanded extra consideration. Within the course of, “Entropy started to really feel like its personal challenge, one thing that might stand by itself and wanted slightly longer to simmer. We had been like, let’s commit. Let’s dig deeper, mine this sound additional, and problem ourselves a bit extra. Entropy’s positively coming from its personal place.”
The excellence is constructed into the music’s primary structure. “Entropy’s tracks are at 160bpm and in the important thing of A,” Mackenzie says. “Entropy’s quite a bit quicker, and has a distinct power, and we leaned into a variety of totally different rhythmic issues on this one. And the place Alien Metallic had a grungy dirtiness about it, Entropy is prettier, extra harmonic, extra cosmic.”
For Mackenzie, the enchantment of Nathan is much less concerning the gear itself than the artistic disruption it has supplied Gizzard’s members over the previous three years. “It’s not an instrument with a keyboard in an old school sense, however a large machine of loopy cables and digital voltage, and this rewires your mind when it comes to songwriting construction and sonics,” he says. “We’ve all the time tried actually exhausting to put in writing songs in several methods. Eurorack has us working utterly otherwise, difficult ourselves and being experimental within the writing course of, however nonetheless touchdown someplace that is sensible. Simply attempting to make music in methods we’ve by no means tried earlier than is the thrill for us.”
Alongside the album, King Gizzard have introduced two North American tour legs for 2027, with August dates on the West Coast and within the Pacific Northwest and October reveals throughout the South, Midwest and Northeast. The August run consists of two nights at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Ceaselessly Cemetery and a date on the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington; the October leg features a return go to to the Caverns in rural Tennessee, which the band visited in summer time 2023, and Chicago’s 10,000-capacity Wintrust Area. Tickets go on sale Friday (Nov. 13).
Sadly, Gizzard’s Subject of Imaginative and prescient pageant is not going to be returning to Meadow Creek in Buena Vista, Co., after the band’s reps and Chaffee County authorities “had been unable to agree upon allow situations that may allow us to host Subject of Imaginative and prescient III in 2027 in Buena Vista,” per an e-mail e-newsletter. As an alternative, Gizzard has added three reveals in Colorado and one other in Nevada in mid-August across the typical time interval as Subject of Imaginative and prescient, the 2026 version of which was marred by fan studies of stronger-than-normal police presence.
Right here is the monitor record for Entropy:
Aeon
Heaven & Hell
Arduous Sync
Rogue Wave
Angel
To Mercury…
Face of the Earth
Entropy
Listed here are King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s tour dates:
Aug. 5-6: Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Ceaselessly Cemetery
Aug. 7: San Diego, CA, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Aug. 8: Flagstaff, AZ, Pepsi Amphitheater
Aug. 10: Santa Fe, NM, Hipico
Aug. 13: Colorado Springs, CO, Ford Amphitheater
Aug. 14: Denver, CO, Mission Ballroom
Aug. 15: Dillon, CO, Dillon Amphitheater
Aug. 17: Reno, NV, Membership UndergroundAug. 18: San Francisco, CA, Cow Palace
Aug. 19: Portland, OR, Venue TBA
Aug. 21: Quincy, WA, Gorge Amphitheatre
Aug. 22: Vancouver, BC, Freedom Cellular Arch
Aug. 24: Calgary, AB, Massive 4 Roadhouse
Aug. 25: Saskatoon, SK, TCU Place
Aug. 26: Winnipeg, MB, Burton Cummings Theatre
Aug. 27: Minneapolis, MN, The Armory
Oct. 6: Dallas, TX, Longhorn Yard Amphitheater
Oct. 7: Austin, TX, Germania Insurance coverage Amphitheater
Oct. 8: New Orleans, LA, Saenger Theatre
Oct. 9: Atlanta, GA, Fox Theatre
Oct. 11: Grundy County, TN, The Caverns (Above Floor Amphitheater)
Oct. 12: Asheville, NC, Hellbender
Oct. 19: Montreal, QC, MTELUS
Oct. 20: Toronto, ON, The Theatre at Nice Canadian Toronto
Oct. 21: Cleveland, OH, Jacobs Pavilion
Oct. 22: Chicago, IL, Wintrust Area
