{"product_id":"king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-ice-death-planets-lungs-mushrooms-lava-vinyl","title":"King Gizzard \u0026 The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms \u0026 Lava Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThings move fast in the Gizzverse, and before Stu Mackenzie and his bandmates had even completed work on their recent mammoth double album Omnium Gatherum, they’d started sketching out this next record. Their Omnium Gatherum single 'The Dripping Tap' had begun life as a handful of ideas and riffs that had arisen at pre-pandemic soundchecks and demos recorded through lockdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor this new album, however, the group wouldn’t be bringing in any pre-written songs or ideas; instead, they planned to cook up all the music together in the studio, on the spot. “All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles,” says Mackenzie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles. I’ll never use most of them, but they’re words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard-world.” Mackenzie selected seven titles from his list that he felt “had a vibe,” and then attached a beats-per-minute value to each one. Each song would also follow one of the seven modes of the major scale: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.\u003cbr\u003eOver seven days, the group recorded hours and hours of jams, dedicating a day to each mode and BPM. “Naturally, each day’s jams had a different flavor, because each day was in a different scale and a different BPM,” Mackenzie says. “We’d walk into the studio, set everything up, get a rough tempo going and just jam. No preconceived ideas at all, no concepts, no songs. We’d jam for maybe 45 minutes, and then all swap instruments and start again.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe group ended each day with four-to-five hours of new jams in the can. Mackenzie auditioned those jams after the sessions were done, stitching them together into the songs that feature on the 21st studio album by King Gizzard \u0026amp; The Lizard Wizard, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava (the initials of the title, IDPLMAL, spell out a mnemonic for the modes). Having assembled full working instrumentals from these jams, Mackenzie and his bandmates began overdubbing flute, organ, percussion and extra guitar over the top. The lyrics, meanwhile, were a group effort. “We had an editable Google Sheet that we were all working on,” says Mackenzie. “Most of the guys in the band wrote a lot of the lyrics, and it was my job to arrange it all and piece it together.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result of this radical, experimental creative process is one of the densest, most unpredictable statements from a band whose work always rockets in from unexpected angles accompanied by a wealth of subtext and theorems. But you don’t even need even a passing understanding of those Ancient Greek musical modes to appreciate this adventurous new music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVinyl Colour\/Design may slightly vary from the images shown on the website\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003eRELEASE DETAILS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003e[Album], [Recycled]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReleased:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600;\"\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"pdp-jss-groupTitle-212\"\u003eLP\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col class=\"pdp-jss-groupTrackList-213\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eMycelium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eIce V\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eMagma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eLava\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eHells Itch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eIron Lung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pdp-jss-listItem-214\"\u003eGliese 710\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Rock-Pop-Alt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42037448605814,"sku":"2812170164","price":67.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/3009\/6246\/files\/599841-Product-0-I-637986632240519843_1080x1080_f89c32c6-5ee8-4133-a85f-e88b5849310c.jpg?v=1742532427","url":"https:\/\/rockaway.com.au\/products\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-ice-death-planets-lungs-mushrooms-lava-vinyl","provider":"Rockaway Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}