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KING GIZZARD & The LIZARD WIZARD – ” Murder Of The Universe “

Posted: June 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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A concept album to end all concept albums, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album “Murder Of The Universe” is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet. Their tenth album in five dizzying years, it hinges on three distinct chapters throughout which snippets of their breakthrough records I’m In Your Mind Fuzz and Nonagon Infinitye merge in ghostly shadow – and it’s available for human consumption now.

“a batshit, brilliant new album” – New York Observer
“A decidedly dark reflection of today’s angst and insanity. There is a bright side however: given its harrowing descriptions of terror and upheaval, it makes the real world seem tame by comparison.” –Paste

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – ” The Lord Of Lightning ” 17th April 2017 on CONAN on

Posted: June 5, 2017 in MUSIC
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A concept album to end all concepts, Murder Of The Universe is the new collection by head-bending psychedelicists King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. ‘Murder Of The Universe’ is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man, the death of the planet, the murder of the whole universe.

“We’re living in dystopian times that are pretty scary and it’s hard not to reflect that in our music,” says front man Stu Mackenzie. “It’s almost unavoidable. Some scientists predict that the downfall of humanity is just as likely to come at the hands of Artificial Intelligence, as it is war or viruses or climate change. But these are fascinating times too. Human beings are visual creatures – vision is our primary instinct, and this is very much a visual, descriptive, bleak record. While the tone is definitely Apocalyptic, it is not necessarily purely a mirror of the current state of humanity. It’s about new non-linear narratives.”

Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, ‘Murder Of The Universe’ inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilisation, rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict. It may take years for its true importance to be appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RPuxO_WyHg&t=181s

The Australian psychedelic rock band make their worldwide television debut on CONAN.

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – ” Murder Of The Universe “

Posted: April 13, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have promised at least four albums this year, and the band seem to be right on target.

They have announced on Facebook their next album will be titled “Murder Of The Universe” and will be out on June 23rd, with pre-orders kicking off this Wednesday. The band presented the track on youtube “Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe (ATO/Flightless), which they described as a ‘Chapter’ of their next thing. In the great prog and psychedelic traditions, it’s your standard dystopian vision of the future with guitar wigouts, rolls of Deep Purple organ, with occasional outbreaks of spoken word, apparently from the viewpoint of the ‘confused cyborg’ of the title, adding a touch of Hitchhikers’ Guide to it. With me so far? Well done you. It’s The Flaming Lips on different drugs.

The album will mark the band’s tenth album after their ninth Microtonal Banana.  Here’s hoping the guys will round out this financial year with a chart-topper.