KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Out Of The Blue The Hardest Working Band In The World Released Their 28 LP In 14 Years
17 August 2026
Credit: Maclay Heriot
I guess for the Australian psych-prog-rockers
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD a day
counts 48 hours.
I must be something weird like that.
They just released their 28th LP in 14 years.
It’s named ALIEN METAL. Order info here.
And it’s quite a special record for the riff junks from down other, as
they have thrown their guitars through the window and surprise with
a full electronic one.
Stu Mackenzie (vocalist/guitarist): “We’ve never scrapped so much material
as we have for this album. Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated,
created, recorded, deleted and started again. The project was finally unlocked
during a late night jam session that went on for more than an hour with every
track evolving from the same source performance.”
They actually announced the album a couple of weeks ago, along
with its single Level 5, but no release date was communicated, and
last Friday it came falling out of the blue.
Billboard US: “Alien Metal is arguably the biggest swing in a catalog full of them,
as the sextet best known for wild, garage-meets-psych-rock ditched its guitars in favor
of a hulking Eurorack, a type of modular synthesizer developed in the ’90s that all of
its members could play simultaneously.”
TUTV: Back to the British 90s techno raves. Alien Metal resonates as if KG&TLW
locked themselves up for a couple of weeks playing Underworld, The Prodigy and
Leftfield records on repeat.
Expect an incessant tsunami of hyperkinetic beats, mind-blowing electro
Krautrock madness, and deformed vocal flashes. Full blast forward without
breaks. Not one moment to have a much-needed breather. E-cstatic.
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