The Murlocs have no qualms about their hedonism on the band’s newest single, “Undone And Unashamed”. The track from the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard side project led by multi-instrumentalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith will appear on the band’s country-tinged album Calm Ya Farm, out May 19th via ATO Records.
In opposition to the previous single “Initiative“, “Undone And Unashamed” has more of the classic garage static tone The Murlocs are known for. Though the band has stated that Calm Ya Farm is more of a departure from that reliable motif and instead experiments with 1970s American psychedelic rock, the underground fuzz is an indelible part of The Murlocs’ musical DNA. The band is trying new things also, with the single containing Kenny-Smith’s first saxophone solo.
As the title may suggest, “Undone And Unashamed” confronts the growing willingness to simply throw up one’s hands and step wilfully into becoming a dumpster fire of a person. Kenny-Smith howls out the character archetypes from the “prima donna snorting up too much coke” to the “Jimmy Dean…rebel without a cause,” as the never-ending party begins to take on real-life consequences.
“Letting loose all the time comes at a cost,” Kenny-Smith said of the lyrics. “When you choose to not hold yourself accountable for your actions by going on countless benders will only make things worse. People don’t always forgive and forget.”
The song’s Jack Rule-directed music video goes hand-in-hand with talks of benders with the use of a spinning fun-house room that Ambrose struts around in to comedic effect.
“When I was a kid I thought Shaun Micallef’s rotating room skit was the funniest thing I’d ever seen and always thought it’d work well for a music video,” Rule said. “Then I saw an Ames distortion room in a museum and thought the same thing. Combining the two was a stupid idea. Getting a living room sized set to levitate, and rotate safely was diabolically hard. This was a weird, magic, memorable project.”
Watch the music video for The Murlocs’ new single “Undone And Unashamed” and pre-order Calm Ya Farm here.
The Murlocs – “Undone And Unashamed” (Official Video)