- 2025-04-16
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MUSIC
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announces New Album “Phantom Island”, Shares New Song “Deadstick”
Australian rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, consisting of Stu Mackenzie (vocals/guitar), Joey Walker (guitart), Lucas Harwood (bass), Michael 'Cavs' Cavanagh (drums), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals/harmonica) and Cook Craig (guitar), has announced their upcoming 27th studio album “Phantom Island” will be released on June 13, 2025.
The album comprises a 10-track, which was written during the sessions for the 2024 album “Flight b741”, and recorded alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
British historical keyboardist, conductor, and arranger Chad Kelly helped the album.
The band frontman Stu Mackenzie said of the album, “They were harder to finish. Musically, they needed a little more time and space and thought. He (Chad Kelly) brings this wealth of musical awareness to his chameleon-like arrangements. We come from such different worlds - he plays Mozart and Bach and uses the same harpsichords they did, and tunes them the exact same way. But he's obsessed with microtonal music, too, and all this nerdy stuff like me.”- From the album, the band released the second single “Deadstick” on April 15, 2025, following the album title track released last October.
The track was written by Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joseph Walker, Lucas Harwood, Michael Cavanagh, Stu Mackenzie, who also produced it.
The accompanying music video was directed by Guy Tyzack, featuring a full-sized crashed plane that was created out of cardboard. -
Director Guy Tyzack said of the video, “I started off wanting to create a frame that looked like a landscape painting with many different people and set pieces dotted about. Deadstick refers to when a plane propeller stops mid-flight so I decided to have a massive plane made out of cardboard crash land into a beautiful location. The song is big and chaotic so then I went about casting swing dancers and eccentric extras to fill the landscape.”
Photo by Maclay Heriot
Background photo by Jason Galea - source : Apple Music
