King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announce New Album ‘Entropy’
By King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Announce details of Entropy, a companion album to Alien Metal.
Out December 4th Via (p)doom records
U.K. & EU dates summer 2027, including 2 nights at the Eventim Apollo in London.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce their 29th album Entropy, a companion album to their 28th album, their dark, ecstatic rave masterpiece from earlier this year, Alien Metal and release of the lead single, ‘Rogue Wave’. Entropy is out December 4th via their own (p)doom records label.
The band also recently announced a run of U.K. & EU dates in June 2027 and subsequently added a second show at the Eventim Apollo in London after the first sold out in a few hours. They have also announced 2 U.S. tours in August and October .
Like its predecessor, Alien Metal, Entropy is rooted in the group’s fascination with Eurorack, a modular synthesiser system involving diodes and cables that looks like something out of vintage sci-fi and delivers sounds that rewire how you make music – and even what music can be. Joey Walker first introduced bandmate Stu Mackenzie to the gear some years back, lighting the touchpaper to an “exciting, exploratory” obsession that quickly ensnared the whole group, to the extent that they now tour with a massive Eurorack setup they treat like a seventh member; its name is ‘Nathan’. Nathan has flexed its muscles at the ‘rave’ shows King Gizzard have played across the world and was the backbone of Alien Metal.
Just as Alien Metal was born in a single session during that intense period when the Gizz were recording days and days of extended Eurorack improvisations, Entropy is another product of those sessions, similarly worked-up from skeletal beginnings into the album now pouring into your lugholes.
“Of all the recordings we did with the Eurorack, there were always these two jams that felt really good, really different,” Mackenzie explains. Initially, the group had planned to complete and release the two albums at the same time, but Alien Metal presented challenges that required the group’s full attention, and in the process “Entropy began to feel like its own project, something that could stand on its own, and needed a little longer to simmer. We were like, ‘Let’s commit – let’s dig deeper, mine this sound further, and challenge ourselves a bit more. Entropy’s definitely coming from its own place.”
While the two albums share much in terms of method and concept –each obeys a single key and bpm throughout – they differ in important details. “Alien Metal’s tracks are 143bpm and in F sharp; Entropy’s tracks are at 160bpm and in the key of A,” says Mackenzie. “Entropy’s a lot faster, and has a different energy, and we leaned into a lot of different rhythmic things on this one. And where Alien Metal had a grungy dirtiness about it, Entropy is prettier, more harmonic, more cosmic.”
Indeed, where Alien Metal’s throbbing digital noise had an unnerving, almost sinister intensity, Entropy plays brighter, more tune-oriented moves. Today’s ‘Rogue Wave’ is as bold and unabashed and irresistible a pop song as King Gizzard have delivered since their earliest synth excursion, 2021’s Butterfly 3000, cycling between earworm choruses and house-y electric piano chord breakdowns.
Listen to ‘Rogue Wave’ HERE.
Entropy is something different entirely, but also, unmistakably, peak Gizzard music. Part of the attraction of making an album like this lies in embracing “a different way of working”, Mackenzie says. Nathan is “not an instrument with a keyboard in an old-fashioned sense, but a giant machine of crazy cables and electronic voltage, and this rewires your brain in terms of songwriting structure and sonics. We’ve always tried really hard to write songs in different ways. Eurorack has us working completely differently, challenging ourselves and being experimental in the writing process, but still landing somewhere that makes sense.”
Entropy is another gripping instalment in the Gizz’s quest to boldly go where they’ve never gone before, to explore the outer reaches and challenge themselves to find new routes to being King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. “Just trying to make music in ways we’ve never tried before is the excitement for us,” Mackenzie says. Long may they follow their wildest and weirdest impulses.
Entropy Tracklist:
1. Aeon
2. Heaven & Hell
3. Hard Sync
4. Rogue Wave
5. Angel
6. To Mercury…
7. Face of the Earth
8. Entropy
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Tour Dates
Sat. Jun. 5 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Tue. Jun. 8 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini
Wed. Jun. 9 – Lyon / Caluire, FR @ Radiant – Bellevue
Fri. Jun. 11 – Bologna, IT @ Sequoie Music Park
Sun. Jun. 13 – Beekse Bergen, NL @ Best Kept Secret
Tue. Jun. 15 – Antwerp, BE @ OLT Rivierenhof
Wed. Jun. 16 – Antwerp, BE @ OLT Rivierenhof
Fri. Jun. 18 – Paris, FR @ Zénith – La Villette
Sun. Jun. 20 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
Mon. Jun. 21 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
Tue. Jun. 22 – Manchester, UK @ BEC Arena Outdoors
Wed. Jun. 23 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Sounds, Canons Marsh Amphitheatre
Thu. Aug. 5 – Fri. Aug. 6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Sat. Aug. 7 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Sun. Aug. 8 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Pepsi Amphitheater
Tue. Aug. 10 – Santa Fe, NM @ Hipico
Wed. Aug. 18 – Daly City, CA @ Cow Palace
Thu. Aug. 19 – Portland, OR @ TBD
Sat. Aug. 21 – Quincy, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun. Aug. 22 – Vancouver, BC @ Freedom Mobile Arch
Tue. Aug. 24 – Calgary, AB @ Big Four Roadhouse
Wed. Aug. 25 – Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place
Thu. Aug. 26 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Fri. Aug. 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
Wed. Oct. 6 – Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater
Thu. Oct. 7 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Fri. Oct. 8 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
Sat. Oct. 9 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Mon. Oct. 11 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns (Above Ground Amphitheater)
Tue. Oct. 12 – Asheville, NC @ Hellbender
Tue. Oct. 19 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
Wed. Oct. 20 – Toronto, ON @ The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto
Thu. Oct. 21 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion
Fri. Oct. 22 – Chicago, IL @ Wintrust Arena