King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Release New Album 'Murder of the Universe'

Melbourne septet King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - who play a heady combination of psychedelia, prog rock, freakbeat, jazz, heavy metal and Krautrock at a breathless punk pace - have released their new artificial intelligence controlled LP Murder of the Universe today.

"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."

Snippets of their breakthrough records I'm In Your Mind Fuzz and Nonagon Infinity resurface throughout in ghostly shadow form to haunt their latest sound. In years to come King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will be judged not by their separate albums, but by a body of work where themes, melodies, motifs, riffs and ideas resurface and recur, each album peeling back a layer of the onion to glimpse at past and future alike.

King Gizzard also recently announced a new run of US tour dates for this September and October including two nights at Chicago's Lincoln Hall, a set at Joshua Tree, CA's psychedelic rock festival Desert Daze and more. The band will be joined by opening act Tropical f Storm, an Australian super group.

US TOUR DATES
9/23 - Kalamazoo, MI - Audiotree Music Festival
9/24 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
9/25 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
9/26 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
9/28 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack's
9/30 - Austin, TX - Mohawk Outside
10/1 - Dallas, TX - Trees
10/3 - Albuquerque, NM - Sister Bar
10/4 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
10/5 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre %
10/6 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall %
10/7 - Boise, ID - Neurolux %
10/8 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom %
10/9 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom %
10/10 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre %
10/12 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore %
10/13 - 10/15 - Joshua Tree, CA - Desert Daze 2017

% with Tropical f Storm

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