Yesterday, Melbourne psychedelic army King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced the release of their seventh studio album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, and they’ve now premiered the title track via Stereogum. You can check it out below.
The album continues the band’s hot prolific streak, coming just seven months after their last album, the acclaimed and ambitious Quarters! The band’s latest effort is ominously set to drop Friday, 13th November.
“After Mind Fuzz and Quarters! I was starting to get over concept records,” frontman Stu Mackenzie wrote in a statement. “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.”
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
