King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release a double album entitled Omnium Gatherum through their KGLW label “soon.” Today, the band previewed their first double album by unveiling “The Dripping Tap,” its 18-minute lead single.
Omnium Gatherum comes on the heels of the prolific Australia-based rockers’ 2021 albums, L.W. and Butterfly 3000 as well as 2020’s K.G. The 16-track effort was yielded from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s first recording sessions together since the pandemic started.
Initially conceptualized as a collection of previously unreleased songs, the band took the ball and ran with it to create new tunes that are also incorporated on the forthcoming double album. Omnium Gatherum was recorded at the group’s Melbourne headquarters and at their now-shuttered 253 Lygon Street clubhouse as well as at band members’ home studios.
“Lyrically, the themes are diverse, though the group’s concern for the ecological well-being of the planet remains a constant,” as per a press release heralding the record. “Some tracks return to the synth-psych visions of Butterfly 3000, others revisit the fevered thrash-metal attack Gizzard coined on 2019’s Infest The Rat’s Nest, elsewhere, the group play bold, unexpected wildcards. Goofball prog, colossal rock-outs and enchanting folksong abound.”
King Gizz’s Stu Mackenzie weighed in on Omnium Gatherum:
“This recording session felt significant. Significant because it was the first time all six Gizzards had gotten together after an extraordinarily long time in lockdown. Significant because it produced the longest studio recording we’ve ever released. Significant because (I think) it’s going to change the way we write and record music – at least for a while… A turning point. A touchstone. I think we’re entering into our ‘jammy period’. It feels good.”
Preview Omnium Gatherum, which will be available for pre-order starting on March 22, by streaming the epic “The Dripping Tap” below followed with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s 2022 tour dates:
