12/26/2023 0 Comments Wizards lizard msuci![]() “Most of the guys in the band wrote a lot of the lyrics, and it was my job to arrange it all and piece it together.” “We had an editable Google Sheet that we were all working on,” says Mackenzie. The lyrics, meanwhile, were a group effort. ![]() Having assembled full working instrumentals from these jams, Mackenzie and his bandmates began overdubbing flute, organ, percussion and extra guitar over the top. ![]() Mackenzie auditioned those jams after the sessions were done, stitching them together into the songs that feature on the 21st studio album by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava (the initials of the title, IDPLMAL, spell out a mnemonic for the modes). ![]() We’d jam for maybe 45 minutes, and then all swap instruments and start again.” The group ended each day with four-to-five hours of new jams in the can. No preconceived ideas at all, no concepts, no songs. “We’d walk into the studio, set everything up, get a rough tempo going and just jam. “Naturally, each day’s jams had a different flavor, because each day was in a different scale and a different BPM,” Mackenzie says. Over seven days, the group recorded hours and hours of jams, dedicating a day to each mode and BPM. Each song would also follow one of the seven modes of the major scale: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. I’ll never use most of them, but they’re words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard-world.” Mackenzie selected seven titles from his list that he felt “had a vibe,” and then attached a beats-per-minute value to each one. “I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles. “All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles,” says Mackenzie. For this new album, however, the group wouldn’t be bringing in any pre-written songs or ideas instead, they planned to cook up all the music together in the studio, on the spot. Their Omnium Gatherum single “The Dripping Tap” had begun life as a handful of ideas and riffs that had arisen at pre-pandemic soundchecks and demos recorded through lockdown. Things move fast in the Gizzverse, and before Stu Mackenzie and his bandmates had even completed work on their recent mammoth double album Omnium Gatherum, they’d started sketching out this next record. Additionally, bundles of all three albums can be pre-ordered here. As a special treat to those who come and see the band live at some of their biggest shows, limited stock of Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava will be available at their Greek Theater show in Berkeley, copies of Laminated Denim will be available at Red Rocks, and Changes can be obtained at the Orpheum in New Orleans. Additionally, they have shared a video for one of the songs off the first of this album triumvirat, “ Ice V.” This will all be happening during the height of Gizz’s North American Takeover, as the band traverses across the continent playing their largest venues yet, including three shows at Red Rocks Amphitheater (2 of which are sold out) and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium (where Dylan went electric, no less). Finally, on October 28th the band will release Changes, their 5th album of the year. Following that will be Laminated Denim, dropping somewhat unconventionally on October 12th, a Wednesday. The first to drop will be the Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava, out October 7th. Today, Australia’s prolific atom-splitting polymaths King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard exceed even the most hyperbolic projections and announce the upcoming release of THREE new albums, all set for flight during the month of October via their own KGLW label.
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