We’re close to the end of October, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have already released three out of the four albums they plan to release this year. So what does a band in that position do next? Only what they do best; releasing a ten-minute single named ‘Crumbling Castle’.
Yes, the immensely prolific King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have just released a brand new tune. While no statement has been made as to whether this is the first taste of a new record, or just a standalone single, given the band’s history we’re inclined to believe that album number twelve is on the way.
Taking to Facebook today, the group shared a typically cryptic-sounding post alongside the new song with a statement which reads like a long-winded clue for a cryptic crossword puzzle.
“In the presence of a mirror, my sensory foax-organs detect discontent on my facial image. I cry a digital tear. Motor fluid. Escaping to the floor, it reflects my silhouette. Frigid, slouched, callous,” the post begins. “My smell escapes me. A rancid odour. I am everywhere. I am light. I am a reflection. I am that which I am. And I am violent. And I want it to end. Stillness from the grinding gears.”
“I am a raging droid, with a full tank of propellant. Flick the switch. Turn them off. Standby. Cut the cord. Death is a lamb in a wolf’s clothes. A blessing from the lord satan. I am on the altar. I want it. The saccharine of eternal rest. I wish to consume it’s sickly syrup, and lick it from my many fingers. Take me into the moonless night. I need it. Any way I pass will do.”
King Gizz have already released three records this year, beginning with February’s Flying Microtonal Banana, continuing with June’s Murder Of The Universe, and so far finishing up with August’s Sketches Of Brunswick East. With only a couple of months before the end of the year, the band only need to drop that long-awaited twelfth album to reach their goal of four albums for 2017.
With the band set to embark on their annual Gizzfest tour in just a matter of weeks, you can rest assured that this new song will more than likely make an appearance in the setlist.
Watch King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s ‘Crumbling Castle’:
