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King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard Release Single Ahead of MegaCorp Pavilion Stop

Photo Cred: Maclay Heriot

Earlier this month, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced their 26th album, Flight b741, out August 9th via their own p(doom) records. Today the group share their new single, “Hog Calling Contest,” and announced a mini-documentary about the making of the album,“Oink Oink Flight b741: The Making of…”

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will stop at MegaCorp Pavilion on Sunday, August 25th!

Directed by Guy Tyzack, the mini-documentary captures the band’s creative process on 16mm film, which restricted Tyzack to shooting about five minutes of film per day, waiting for the right moment while sitting discreetly in the corner. “We were tasked with capturing the band make an album from scratch in two weeks, they purposefully didn't prepare much for the recordings so it was very difficult for me to plan what to film,” Tyzack says. “I just knew they'd be in one room and three of them might drop out at any moment because they were expecting babies. The room looked brown and boring so I painted it like the sky to match the theme of the album in one 17hr stretch with three friends and a slab of mids.”

On the inspiration for “Hog Calling Contest,” the band explains: “While recording Flight b741, we occasionally had these ultra-inspired tune-up/warm-up jams. Of course, we were never actually recording during these moments though. Lost to time. Except one time; This time. We learned to record these moments; ‘Daily Blues’ came together this way too. But ‘Hog Calling Contest’ retains a unique unhinged-ness that only comes when you’re fooling around with your mates and you don’t think you’re being recorded. Happy in mud!”

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