Australian rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard dropped the new single “Magenta Mountain” via a video directed by John Angus Stewart. The song appears on Omnium Gatherum, a studio album due out through the band’s KGLW imprint on April 22.
Omnium Gatherum was yielded from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s first recording sessions together since the pandemic started. The 16-track effort features “gonzoid prog jams, dizzying pop nuggets, rubber-legged hip-hop odysseys and passages of pure thrash-metal abandon,” as per materials announcing Omnium Gatherum. “Magenta Mountain” comes on the heels of “The Dripping Tap,” the album’s previously released 18-minute lead single.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Ambrose Kenny-Smith shared the following in regards to “Magenta Mountain”:
“You know when you have a really weird vivid dream and it sticks with you like glue? One day I came into the studio and Stu [Mackenzie] was trying to write one of them down. He kept banging on about this paradise called Magenta Mountain that he had seen but none of us believed him. Every day since then he’s been still trying to convince us all that it’s real and one day he will.”
John Angus Stewart synced the studio cut to footage from a King Giz live performance in their hometown of Melbourne. “‘Magenta Mountain’ is a new track, which can always be a tricky one to film live as people are yet to have digested the song on their own,” explained Stewart. “So we decided to use the normally unseen infrastructure of a gig to guide us through the performance. Giving the audience a ‘protagonist’ for a live show, in this case the watchful and sometimes forceful eye of a security guard. The brute in hi-vis clearing a path through sweaty fans is a beautiful thing to behold.”
Watch the resulting “Magenta Mountain” video below:
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announce New Album ‘Omnium Gatherum’ & Share 18-Minute Single
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