King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have further demystified their upcoming 20th album, Omnium Gatherum, with another single, “Magenta Mountain”. The second track arrived alongside some factual information missing from the album’s original announcement earlier this month: the latest studio effort from the Australian psych-rockers is due on April 22nd via the band’s KGLW label.
Following the lead single, “The Dripping Tap” which clocked in at 18-minutes, the six-minute “Magenta Mountain” seems brief by comparison. The song carries some remnants of Butterfly 3000 thanks to Ambrose Kenny-Smith‘s danceable keyboards. As the multi-instrumentalist said of the track, “You know when you have a really weird vivid dream and it sticks with you like glue? One day I came into the studio and Stu was trying to write one of them down. He kept banging on about this paradise called Magenta Mountain that he had seen but none of us believed him. Every day since then he’s been still trying to convince us all that it’s real and one day he will.”
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Along with the studio rendition available on streaming services, King Gizzard shared a live clip taken from the band’s Timeland festival. “Magenta Mountain” has been in the group’s live repertoire for a while. Recorded on March 5th at Reunion Park in Melbourne, the video takes on the stern perspective of a security guard keeping watch over the show.
“‘Magenta Mountain’ is a new track, which can always be a tricky one to film live as people are yet to have digested the song on their own,” frontman Stu Mackenzie said. “So we decided to use the normally unseen infrastructure of a gig to guide us through the performance. Giving the audience a ‘protagonist’ for a live show, in this case the watchful and sometimes forceful eye of a security guard. The brute in hi-vis clearing a path through sweaty fans is a beautiful thing to behold.”
Watch the new live video for “Magenta Mountain” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and scroll down for the lyrics. Omnium Gatherum is available here for pre-order, with the full tracklist below. The band is preparing for a 2022 world tour, set to touch down in the United States on April 17th in Las Vegas, NV. For tickets and a full list of tour dates click here.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “Magenta Mountain” (Live at Timeland)