King Gizzard And the Lizard Wizard release new album 'Nonagon Infinity' on Heavenly 29th April
Recording, releasing and touring a couple of albums in 18 months is beyond the realms of comprehensibility for most bands, but then King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard aren’t ‘most bands’. Forget a couple of albums, Friday April 29th 2016 marks the release of Nonagon Infinity, their fourth long-player for Heavenly Recordings in a little under a year and a half. Workshy they ain’t!
After the acid-flecked cosmic jazz of Quarters and the hazy, pastoral, acoustic bliss of Paper Mache Dream Balloon, with Nonagon Infinity the Gizzard once again dive head-long into the gonzo freak-beat frenzy that mark both their Heavenly debut I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, and their perpetually in motion, double-drummer propelled live show.
Recorded by Wayne Gordon, Paul Maybury, Michael Badger and Stu Mackenzie at Daptone Studios in Brooklyn, in keeping with their indefatigable spirit the 9 track album may be the world's first infinitely looping LP. Each of the nine, complex, blistering tracks on Nonagon Infinity seamlessly flows into the next, with the final song linking straight back into the top of the opener like a sonic mobius strip.
Clocking in at 41 Minutes, the track listing of Nonagon Infinity is as follows:
- Robot Stop
- Big Fig Wasp
- Gamma Knife
- People-Vultures
- Mr. Beat
- Evil Death Roll
- Invisible Face
- Wah Wah
- Road Train
The band also release a single, Gamma Knife, on April 29th, which is accompanied by a suitably ‘looping’ video directed by Jason Galea, who is responsible for all the band’s incredible artwork and videos.
Burning a trail from their Geelong hideout just outside Melbourne like a cosmically-charged, lysergically-laced Canned Heat, leaving all they meet dazed & confused and seemingly on a constant circuit of the globe (Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz & Roskilde as well as countless sold out dates in rooms across the USA, UK, Europe and Australia in the last 12 months alone), the band recently played a short tour of the UK, which culminated in a sold out show at London’s Electric Ballroom. Their fantastic sold-out AB concert in Brussels can still be experienced here:
And following a couple of festival appearances over the summer, they are set to bring their unrestrained and free-wheeling live show back in the autumn. Their full list of current shows is as follows:
AUGUST
- 18th Glanusk Park Green Man Festival
- 21st Hamburg Dockville Festival
SEPTEMBER
- 2nd Tollard Royal End of the Road Festival
- 8th London Brixton Electric
- 9th Manchester Ritz
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are: Stu Mackenzie (vocals / guitar/ flute), Ambrose Kenny Smith (harmonica / vocals), Craig Cook (guitar / vocals), Eric Moore (drums), Joey Walker (guitar), Lucas Skinner (bass) & Michael Cavanagh (drums).