Earlier this month, we reported that Melbourne psychedelic rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard had finally got it together long enough to record their long-awaited seventh studio album, which is now set to drop in November, a full seven months after their last album.
So, what’s on the cards for fans of one of Australia’s most prolific bands? King Gizz’s seventh album in just three years will be titled Paper Mâché Dream Balloon and it will not feature any electric instruments – they’re going all-acoustic on this one.
“After Mind Fuzz and Quarters! I was starting to get over concept records,” frontman Stu Mackenzie explains. “I wanted to make an album with a collection of short unrelated songs.”
“I wanted to steer away from electric guitar music which I felt like we’d explored pretty heavily on the last couple. So Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, the concept-less concept album, got a concept.”
“No electric instruments. Just acoustic guitars, flute, double bass, fiddle, harmonica, drum kit, clarinet. Whatever we could find, really.”
“We recorded it mostly in an empty shipping container on my parents’ farm in country Victoria. It was all horses, emus and Tim Tams.”
The album’s title track is currently available to hear via iTunes and you can find out more about Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, which is ominously set to drop Friday, 13th November, via the band’s official Bandcamp channel.
Readers can check out the album’s artwork and full tracklist below. The album is currently available to pre-order in limited edition deluxe tricolour vinyl, but there’s only 1,000 copies to go around so make sure you get on it fast.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
1. Sense
2. Bone
3. Dirt
4. Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
5. Trapdoor
6. Cold Cadaver
7. The Bitter Boogie
8. N.G.R.I (Bloodstain)
9. Time = Fate
10. Time = $$$
11. Most Of What I Like
12. Paper Mâché
