King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Announce New Orchestral Album Out Next Week

The ever-busy King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard revealed final yr that they recorded a whole album with an orchestra in the identical time interval that they made 2024’s Flight B741. Now, the Australian prog-rock band has introduced the LP is lastly out subsequent week, with Phantom Island arriving April 15 on the band’s personal label (P)Doom. Take a look at the title observe and canopy artwork beneath.

“Loads of love and time and power and endurance and development went into this one,” lead singer-guitarist Stu Mackenzie wrote on Instagram. “Can’t wait to develop wings and fly with all of you.”

“Phantom Island” is the primary of 10 tracks on the brand new album. It’s the whopping twenty seventh album of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s profession, following final yr’s Flight B741 and two 2023 information: The Silver Cord and PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. The band hasn’t specified which orchestra really performs on the album, however the credit for the lead single do notice that it was performed by Brett Kelly.

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