Fishing for Fishies sees the band exploring a blues-oriented sound.
Fresh off the back of announcing a national tour, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have dropped their eagerly awaited 14th studio album, Fishing for Fishies on their label, Flightless Records.
The nine-track album is the band’s first since 2017, which saw King Gizz drop a mammoth five albums in the space of 12 months. Never ones to shy from a challenge, Fishing for Fishies sees the band exploring a blues-oriented sound.
“We tried to make a blues record,” says frontman Stu Mackenzie. “A blues-boogie-shuffle-kinda-thing, but the songs kept fighting it – or maybe it was us fighting them. Ultimately though we let the songs guide us this time; we let them have their own personalities and forge their own path. Paths of light, paths of darkness. This is a collection of songs that went on wild journeys of transformation.”
Recorded in the home studio of The Drones and Tropical Fuck Storm’s Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin in Nagambie, the making of Fishing for Fishies has also been immortalised through a short documentary titled How to gut a fishie, capturing the shenanigans. Check it out below.
