King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.

L.W. is the seventeenth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, released in February 2021 via Flightless Records.

Australia's undisputed kings of psychrotonal madness King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back with the critically-acclaimed companion piece to last year’s ‘K.G: ‘L.W.’

Combined to form a complete whole with companion album ‘K.G.’, The ‘Gizz of L.W. finds the band gleefully revisiting the distinct microtonal sounds and textures of their 2016 tour-de-force 'Flying Microtonal Banana’ whilst carving out new sonic territory and marking a distinct chapter in their already legendary career.

The album comes on classic black wax with a 350gsm deluxe board jacket housed in a fully recyclable cardboard sleeve.

On L.W. very different - and occasionally wonky – worlds collide.  Album opener “If Not Now, Then When?” morphs from mangled eastern rock into taut funk in a manner that somehow makes complete sense, while the amorphous and exotic ‘Pleura’ is a pungent gumbo of heady microtonal strings, tumescent riffs and endless surprises. Then there’s the slinky ‘Ataraxia’ which slithers like a sidewinder through the dusty catacombs of the imagination and the utterly disorientating ‘See Me’, which is nothing less than the national anthem of a scorched planet hitherto undiscovered. Here is an album that pulls, pushes and contorts western music into new shapes. Though some might categorise it as such, this is not ‘world music’ but ‘universal music’.

This album is on recycled black vinyl housed in a heavy board sleeve with printed inner sleeve, OBI strip and brown paper eco-friendly bag, pressed in Australia via Flightless Records.