King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard: Release three new albums this month.
King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard – Ice V
Ice V is a song by Australian six-pieces King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard,
Facts about this son!
Starring Joe Walker as Joey
Directed, produced and shot by Danny Cohen
Edit: Derry Sheehan
Colourist: Trish Cahill
Fixer: Spyros Drakopoulos
Fixer Producer: Aliki Paraschis at Need a Fixer
Assistant / Locations / Life Saver: Edith Kenny-Smith
Special Thanks: Michelle Cable, Leah Churchill-Brown / EXIT Films, Vassilis at Arctos Films, Téchnē Restaurant, Nellie Jackson, Derry Sheehan, Josh Cohen, Ilyas Saliba, Jason Galea, Cook Craig, Hayden Somerville and David Ellis.
Stu: Guitar / Flute / Vocals / Bass / Organ / Clavinet / Percussion
Amby: Keys / Saxophone / Percussion / Vocals
Cavs: Drums
Joey: Bass / Guitar / Farfisa
Cookie: Keys / Guitar
Lukey: Bass / Keys
Recorded by Stu Mackenzie
Mixed by Stu Mackenzie
Produced by Stu Mackenzie
Lyrics:
Ice V. Ice V. Ice V…
Ganymede princess with the tongue of death
She smells what the wind says with the lava forked pincers
Ganymede princess with a lungless chest
With her tongues forked pincers she smells what the people says
Ice V. Ice V. Ice V…
Monoclinic
Crystalline
Spears of death shoot down the line
Autocratic and quantised
Land mine meteorite
Lost in transit
Obliteration
Disconnected correlations
Lucky 7
Ace of spades
Double down
Checkmate
Ice V. Ice V. Ice V…
Ain’t getting out of here alive
Ice V has arrived
Pimple puss
Crop circle pit
Oozing out of crevices
Sentient toadstool throne
Crooked sceptre
Alien bone
Frosted pistol
Loaded spite
Shooting rays of frozen light
Feel the doom of flashing flood
Crimson clouds are raining blood
Will we survive Ice V?
Ice V. Ice V. Ice V…
Queen of ice
Suffice to say
Engulfing all in crystal dismay
Freezing whims as the sun dims
The pressure tearing limb from limb
Earth born cities stripped away as the ice queen hypnotically sways
Queen of ice
Suffice to say
Engulfing all in crystal dismay
Ice V. Ice V. Ice V…
Ain’t getting out of here alive
Ice V has arrived
It comes as the band announce they will release three new albums in October; Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava, Laminated Denim and Changes. That is probably based on huge amount of song writing.
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava will be released on the band’s KGLW label on October 7th. The band’s 21st album, it was constructed from a week’s worth of experimental jams. Ice-V is taken from Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava.
«We’d walk into the studio, set everything up, get a rough tempo going and just jam. No preconceived ideas at all, no concepts, no songs,” explains Stu Mackenzie. “We’d jam for maybe 45 minutes, and then all swap instruments and start again».
Laminated Denim features just two lengthy tracks and will be released on October 12, unusually, for a record release, a Wednesday.
«Laminated Denim is an anagram of Made In Timeland», says Mackenzie.
And finally, Changes will be released on October 28. A conceptual album the band first began working on in 2017.
«I think of Changes as a song-cycle», says band-member Stu Mackenzie. «Every song is built around this one chord progression – every track is like a variation on a theme. But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. We recorded some of it then, including the version of Exploding Suns that’s on the finished album. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do».
The band will be undertaking their biggest US tour throughout October before returning to Australia and New Zealand at the end of the year. They will also be playing Byron Bay’s Bluesfest in April.
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