The members of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard showcase their fanciest footwork within the video for his or her new music “Hate Dancin’,” the lead single from their third album of this month, Adjustments, which arrives Oct. 28.
Filmed, edited and directed by John Angus Stewart in 2020 on the band’s Australian headquarters, the clip is the primary style of Adjustments, the genial, methodically composed, soul- and jazz-tinged follow-up to 2 consecutive jam-based albums, Ice, Demise, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava and Laminated Denim. As he dips into the occasional falsetto, frontman Stu Mackenzie vacillates between retreating from the proverbial dance ground to finally embracing its delights: “Simply jokin’ / I like it / I used to be simply kidding / I like it.”
Every of the seven songs on Adjustments are constructed across the identical chord development, an idea pretty widespread in jazz however uncommon on the planet of rock’n’roll. This block of music dates way back to 2017 and represents the longest King Gizzard has ever labored on a venture earlier than truly releasing it.
“When Stu began to fiddle with these concepts, he was nonetheless making an attempt to wrap his head round them, not to mention us,” group member Joey Walker tells SPIN. “We booked some studio time to report the songs, which had been probably going to be the fifth of the five-album 12 months in 2017, however it simply wasn’t fairly there for varied causes — perhaps our technical skill or skill to know when to cease or when it was achieved. I simply don’t suppose we had been fairly prepared. They had been placed on the back-burner for a very long time, till naturally Stu picked them up once more. Through the pandemic, we stuffed out the album a bit extra and did some recording. This 12 months, we completed it out on the street with some overdubs once we had been in Europe. It’s an attention-grabbing one, as a result of each time I take into consideration taking part in it, actually my mind hurts. Simply to re-enter these songs, getting into chilly, it’s actually onerous. Not being as assured at that degree of concept, you actually should be all in.”
“It’s nearly the alternative of what we’ve been doing with Ice, Demise…” group member Lucas Harwood provides. “With that, every music is one key, and it’s closely improvised. I’ve been loving taking part in these songs dwell, since you get into this zone the place you don’t truly should suppose that a lot. You may simply type of really feel it and vibe off of one another. With these Adjustments songs, it’s important to focus actually onerous (laughs).”
Requested if this melodic constraint may have resulted in music that was, say, thrash-y or folk-y, Walker solutions with a chuckle, “positively not.” Says Harwood, “It positively goes completely different locations, however to me, it appears like pop with jazz concept. None of those songs are actually quick both, aside from perhaps ‘Gondhi,’ and I discover that simpler, as a result of you’ve got extra time to consider the following be aware (laughs). It’s actually cool that this report is being launched subsequent to Ice, Demise… and Laminated Denim, as a result of it’s nearly the antithesis. It’s actually structured and constructed. I feel the followers are actually going to love that as a distinction to those different actually jammy data, that are nice in their very own proper and really enjoyable to play dwell.”
Past in the present day’s new video, Gizzard can be teasing a separate quick movie, Sleeping Monster, with extra info coming Wednesday (Oct. 19). The group will play its greatest North American headlining present thus far on Friday at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, N.Y. and can wrap this leg of touring with the third of three “marathon three-hour units” on Nov. 2 at Pink Rocks outdoors Denver. All three can be found for delayed streaming by Nugs.
