Flight b741 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

• 1Mirage City04:48
• 2Antarctica04:31
• 3Raw Feel04:16
• 4Field of Vision03:35
• 5Hog Calling Contest03:20
• 6Le Risque03:34
• 7Flight b74103:58
• 8Sad Pilot04:11
• 9Rats In The Sky03:06
• 10Daily Blues07:42
• Total Runtime43:01

Info for Flight b741

For their 26th album, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard swap the widescreen concepts of their recent albums for the intimacy of six good friends collaborating on the most bonhomie-laden set they’ve yet committed to wax. For Flight b741, bandleader Stu Mackenzie says King Gizzard “wanted to make something that was primal, instinctual, more ‘from the gut’ – just people in a room, doing what feels right. We wanted to make something fun.”

Tapping into the country-fried 70s American rock on which they were all raised – along with the ornery garage-rock roots from which their mighty discography sprang – Flight b741 is lightning caught inside a bottle. Across its 10 ragged, glorious barnburners, King Gizzard flesh out rough skeletons of songs with their inspired improvisations, inimitable grooves and a unique pass-the-mic approach to vocals that saw every member of the band raise their voice and sing. “We’re having a lot of fun, but we’re often singing about some pretty heavy shit,” Mackenzie adds, “and probably hitting on some deeper, more universal themes than usual. It’s not a sci-fi record, it’s about life and stuff. But the record is like a really fun weekend with your mates, you know? Like, proper fun.”

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard:
Stu Mackenzie, vocals, guitars, bass
Ambrose Kenny-Smith, vocals, harmonica, saxophone, mellotron, piano
Joey Walker, vocals, guitars, bass
Michael Cavanagh, vocals, drums, percussion
Cook Craig, vocals, organ, mellotron
Lucas Harwood, vocals, piano
Additional musicians:
Sam Joseph, pedal steel guitar, full band recording

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
The stats on King Gizzard’s colourful career are stacking up fast: 16 albums in 8 years (including five in 2017 alone), 10 of them charting in the Top 20 in Australia, where they are now arguably the country’s most innovative, important and productive rock band. International critical acclaim. Headline festival appearances. And perhaps most importantly, a fervent worldwide fanbase who share endless memes, mixes, videos, graphics, theories and discussions, all through which they explore and expand what they have termed ‘The Gizzverse’.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are: Stu Mackenzie (vocals/guitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (harmonica/vocals/keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar/vocals), Joey Walker (guitar/vocals), Lucas Harwood (bass) and Michael Cavanagh (drums).

Album discography: 12 Bar Bruise (2012), Eyes Like the Sky (2013), Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013), Oddments (2014), I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (2014), Quarters! (2015), Paper Mache Dream Balloon (2015), Nonagon Infinity (2016), Flying Microtonal Banana (2017), Murder of the Universe (2017), Sketches of Brunswick East (with Mild High Club, 2017), Polygondwanaland (2017), Gumboot Soup (2017), Fishing for Fishies (2019), Infest The Rats’ Nest (2019), (2020), K.G. (2020), L.W. (2021), and Butterfly 3000 (2021).

This album contains no booklet.