King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Released 23rd July 2021.

Vinyl due 10thSeptember.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have always greeted creative boundaries with the same respect bulldozers visit upon anything foolish enough to stray into their path. Over 11 years and across their 17 studio albums to date, the sui generis sextet have turned their many hands to luminous acid-rock daydreams (Im In Your Mind Fuzz), gritty western horse operas (Eyes Like The Sky), never-ending science-fiction song cycles (Nonagon Infinity), dystopian death-metal epics (Infest The Rats Nest) and winningly mellifluous jazz-folk (Sketches Of Brunswick East). Theyve even invented their own musical instrument a hybrid electric guitar sharing much of its DNA with the traditional Turkish balama to explore the notes between the notes (a mission thats yielded three albums thus far: Flying Microtonal Banana, K.G. and L.W.).

But their 18th album, Butterfly 3000, might be their