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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release “Entropy”, their 29th studio album, on 4 December on their own label, p(doom) Records. It lands less than four months after “Alien Metal”, which came out on 14 August, and it’s that record’s companion: the band wanted to put the two out together, but “Entropy” began to feel like its own project and needed a little longer to simmer. The first taste is “Rogue Wave”.
Both albums were made on the same Eurorack modular synth, which Joey Walker introduced to Stu Mackenzie and which the band calls “Nathan”. Where “Alien Metal” ran at 143 beats per minute, “Entropy” stays at 160 throughout. “Entropy’s a lot faster, and has a different energy, and we leaned into a lot of different rhythmic things on this one,” says Mackenzie. “Where Alien Metal had a grungy dirtiness about it, Entropy is prettier, more harmonic, more cosmic.”
There are eight tracks, closing with the title track: “Aeon”, “Heaven & Hell”, “Hard Sync”, “Rogue Wave”, “Angel”, “To Mercury…”, “Face Of The Earth” and “Entropy”.
The European tour in summer 2027 starts at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on 5 June, their only Spanish date. From there it goes to Toulouse, Lyon, Bologna, Beekse Bergen, Antwerp, Paris, London and Manchester, finishing in Bristol on 23 June. Two North American tours follow, in August and October; tickets for those two go on sale on 13 November.
Text by Marçal Bonastre