Az ausztrál King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard pszichedelikus rockerei az öt tavalyi nagylemezük (a Made In Timeland, az Omnium Gatherum, az Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava, a Laminated Denim és a Changes) után idén már kiadtak egy stúdióalbumot PetroDagonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation címmel, de termékenységüket ismerve nem nagy meglepetés, hogy alig négy hónappal később máris érkezik egy újabb anyaguk: a 2023. október 27-re bejelentett The Silver Cord a 25. sorlemezük lesz a 2012-es debütalbumukkal indult szériában! Ma bemutatták az első három dalt a klipjével.
A nyári metállemezzel ellentétben az új album elektronikusabb és szintetizátorosabb lesz, a hétszámos anyaga pedig két verzióban is megjelenik: az első változaton a dalok rövid és lényegre törő formájukban hallhatók, a másodikon viszont hosszú extended verziójukban, amihez Stu Mackenzie multiinstrumentalista-producer-frontember konkrétan a diszkómágus Giorgio Moroderrel készült Donna Summer-lemezeket hozta fel analógiaként. Az album alapverziójának első három száma immár meg is hallgatható Jason Galea videójával.
THEIA
The silver cord, a glowing thread
Binds us to the higher divine
A bridge immortal and unspoken
Helping us to truth-align
Theia
Theia
Theia...
Theia, a force of destiny
Fate intertwined with that of earth
A ticking clock of new reality
A spiritual rebirth
And when Theia it did impact, the silver cord did snap as well
Leaving the soul to sail on a journey beyond that which we dwell
Theia
Theia
Theia...
Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
So perhaps our Theia's collision was not just a cosmic death
But also a means of fusion and the day we took our first breath
Towards a higher, truer ego in the vast and honeyed sky
Leaving behind our mortal coil
Silver cord now torn, the spirit flies
Theia
Theia
Theia...
Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
Meet our maker
Dance with Theia
Meet our maker
Destroy Theia
THE SILVER CORD
The apostle of conscious dying whispers to me
"Keep on trying
Stay tethered to the cosmic sacrum
Safe within the Bardo playground
You'll cry tears that fall up to the sky
While wrathful gods chant your name
You'll never scream
You have no breath
No refuge in between your death"
Power made by Ptah
Beautiful child of love
The gods ascribe praises to him
Maker of things celestial and of things terrestrial
He illumineth Egypt
Traverser of the celestial heights in peace
From the womb I materialise
Terrified
Uncircumcised
My mothers love; Hypericum
Awake for the caesarean
Like a dog on a freeway
I commit my life to end it my way
I am deaf
I am a mute
I am blind
And I have broken through
I'm just a vessel
I'm just a poor boy travelling with my bodies
Bodies
Body imagery
Imagery
I am free
I am marooned and tied to my bodies
Bodies
Body imagery
Imagery
SET
Snout of a jackal and a tail of a snake
Slithers and slinks through the desert, awake
Gorges on moonbeams and bathes in quantum foam
Unchallenged in the infinite unknown
Tornado bore down and lifted him high
Throwing Set around with a windy cry
His bones did shatter and his flesh did rend
But still, the god did not bend
Osirus of Geb, of Nut and dead, dutifully did what he was beset
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set…
Governs sandstorms with but a gesture
Squeezing day into night with supernatural pressure
God of duality and king of the fight
Right eye the sun and left the moon's light
His followers screamed
His enemies cheered
As they watched their golden god disappear
Be unto your storm with a final breath
Set, it’s time to meet your death
Osiris of earth, of sky, and birth
Cut the cord
Kill the king and reset
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set…
The god of death and rebirth too
Out with the old and in with the new
Ashes to gashes
The past of new life is made
Brightened up the shadows
Light up the shade
Horus gave Set the downstairs snip, snip
Poked out his eyes and ripped it to pieces
Eighty years of conflict
Crocodile-dog-birth
Lucifer inverted
Slender usurper
Piece of work
Struggling stranglehold akin to poison and going for broke
An eye for a sun
And an eye for the moon
Love letter death threats written in the tomb
The seed is set
Cow-horn-headdress
The seed is set
Hieroglyphic
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set
Slay the mighty Set…
az új album (mindkét verziójának) számlistája az alábbi Bandcamp-lejátszón:
fotók az új lemez stúdiómunkálatairól...
A bejegyzés megtekintése az Instagramon
... és egy vicces transzvesztita képsorozat a nyár eleji amerikai turné idejéből:
A bejegyzés megtekintése az Instagramon
a King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard a nyár végén kiadott egy koncertalbumot is...
...meg egy Demos Vol. 5 + Vol. 6 című összeállítást is az elmúlt években megjelent Demos Vol. 1 + Vol. 2 és Demos Vol. 3 + Vol. 4 gyűjtemények folytatásaként:
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