‘King Gizzard is back with Butterfly 3000, their second album of the year, and one that’s both melodic and psychedelic. What makes Butterfly 3000 unique for King Gizz is that, while elements of psych-rock are scattered throughout the band’s discography, this album is straight up psychedelic from start to finish with modular synths and arpeggio loops proving another departure for the band.’
‘The third album in seven months from ever-prolific psych-overlords King Gizzard also happens to be their most radical departure yet’
‘It’s already the most prolific band you’ve heard of but never listened to, but after 18 wildly different albums in a decade, Australia’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is still just getting warmed up. On the heels of two loud and unusual LPs written in the decidedly non-Western microtonal tuning, King Gizzard’s latest release, “Butterfly 3000,” marks a radical shift toward smile-inducing songs built on synth arpeggios, danceable beats and honest-to-goodness singalong choruses.’
‘Album number 18 was recorded in the band’s homes during the pandemic, and trades psych-rock blitzes for a finely-woven sprawl of synth programming and MIDI sequences.’
‘King Gizzard magically arrived at their most generously melodic and open-hearted album to date. It wouldn’t be accurate to call Butterfly 3000 the band’s synth-pop album. Their trademark motorik thrust is still in effect; it simply veers toward the more electro-curious side of the kosmiche-rock canon — less “Mother Sky,” more Harmonia.’
‘The Turning Wheel is Chrystia Cabral’s third album as SPELLLING, and it marks a turn toward lush orchestration (featuring no fewer than 31 collaborative musicians) and fanciful storytelling.’
‘As SPELLLING, Chrystia Cabral has been making darkly alluring experimental pop for years. The Turning Wheel maintains the darkness, the allure, and Cabral’s experimental touch, yet she has turned up the pop quotient significantly here.’
‘SPELLLING is releasing her new album, The Turning Wheel, in a couple weeks. We’ve heard two tracks from it so far, “Little Dear” and “Boys At School,” and today we’re getting the title track, which sounds like an elaborate ’60s pop fantasia with an appropriately theatrical video to match.’
‘Hot in front! The Murlocs – the Melbourne band, led by Ambrose Kenny-Smith and Cook Craig of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – have shared their new single “Eating at You,” the final single from their upcoming fifth studio album, Bittersweet Demons , which will be released on June 25 (via the label Flightless Records).’
‘Los Angeles garage psych punk purveyors Osees rolled in to Red Rocks Amphitheatre Saturday May 15th for a one-off show to one of the last pandemic-limited crowds of the early 2021 season. Threatening weather moved out of the area just in time, leaving clear skies and perfect temperatures for the sold out, pandemic-limited* crowd.’
‘Led by her acute lyricism and liberating honesty Jess Cornelius’s bleeding-heart beach rock lands plenty of punches in an emotional slog match.’
‘King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have revealed a new album, titled ‘Butterfly 3000’, will arrive next month. The Melbourne band’s 18th studio album is set to arrive on June 11. In an Instagram post announcing the record, they described it as “melodic” and “psychedelic”, and said no singles would be released ahead of the album’s arrival.’
‘King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have announced their next album, Butterfly 3000, which will arrive on June 11 via the band’s own KGLW label. The LP marks the band’s second album of 2021 following February’s L.W. and their 18th studio album overall. Check out the announcement below.’
‘King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release new album ‘Butterfly 3000′ on June 11th. It’s the band’s second LP of the year so far, and it actually their 18th to date – a colossal discography by any standards.’
‘King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back and have announced their latest studio album, Butterfly 3000, due out 11 June. The Melbourne psych-rockers announced their 18th studio album in an Instagram post earlier today (11 May). They described the record as sounding both “melodic” and “psychedelic” while containing no singles.’
‘King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have shared some details about their second studio album of 2021, called Butterfly 3000, which arrives 11 June on the KGLW label. The twist? They won’t be releasing any advance singles or album artwork until release day.’
‘King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are back with news of their second album of 2021 Butterfly 3000, which will be released next month. Although the group only delivered their L.W. album back in February, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are already preparing to release their follow up Butterfly 3000.’
‘King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced their second LP of 2021.’Butterfly 3000’ will mark the furiously prolific sextet’s 18th full-length since forming in 2010, and follows hot on the heels of ‘L.W.’, which landed in February.’
‘In a press release Cabral explains that the new song “steps back into my younger self, my teenage self to voice my angst, desires and disillusionments. I knew when I created the main motif on the piano that it was striking something really raw and both delicate and fierce. The notes just immediately transported me to the era of my youth, of this time when you are really beginning to confront the mirror of yourself to the outside world.”
‘The Bay Area artist will share her third full-length via the Brooklyn-based label on June 25th. The Turning Wheel draws on synth pop, R&B and soul and sees Cabral co-producing and orchestrating an ensemble of 31 musicians, including banjo, harp, bassoon and trombone. Originally meant to be released last September, the twelve-track LP was delayed due to the pandemic and resulted in instrumentalists recording in socially-distanced and remote studio sessions.’
‘The Bay Area’s Chrystia Cabral is back with a new SPELLLING single, “Boys At School,” from her forthcoming album The Turning Wheel. This follows the lead single, “Little Dear,” which previewed a more upbeat, poppy direction. This new track starts as an eccentric piano ballad with haunting vocals and atmospheric synths, and gradually transforms into an intense indie rock anthem.’
‘For Butterfly 3000, the band has chosen to forgo an advance single, artwork, or tracklist, revealing only the number of songs (10), that the record was built around modular synth loops, and that the cover will feature a “cross-eyed autostereogram” by long-time collaborator Jason Galea.’
‘Melbourne-based psych-rock group King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a new album, Butterfly 3000, which is their second album of 2021. Butterfly 3000 is due out June 11 via the band’s own KGLW label. And that’s all the information they have shared. No advance singles will be released and the album cover and tracklist will not be revealed until the album is out.’
‘Because it’s been almost three months since they released a new album, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced they’ll be back with Butterfly 3000 on June 11 via their own KGLW label. It’ll be their 18th album and according to the press release it’s a suite of 10 songs that “all began life as arpeggiated loops composed on modular synthesisers” before being fleshed out and transformed by the six-piece band. The band describe this one as “melodic + psychedelic.”
‘King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced their second album of 2021, Butterfly 3000, which will be released on June 11th via the band’s own KGLW label. The band have decided to play this one close to the vest, and will drop the album in its entirety on June 11th without any advance singles, or sharing the album artwork…’
Jess Cornelius – Body Memory (Peach Fuzz Version) featured on NPR Music’s New Music Friday Playlist
‘Jess Cornelius is always changing into something else, something new. An artist in motion, she moved from her native New Zealand to Australia, before lettering soaking up West Coast elements in the United States. Her work as Teeth & Tongue earned widespread acclaim, growing from a solo project into a full band. Last year’s solo album saw Jess strip her sound right down, and it gains a full UK release on May 14th.’
The innovation isn’t over, however, with the songwriter deciding to reimagine her album cut ‘Body Memory’.
‘LA based Australian artist Jess Cornelius released Distance last year and she’s now shared an alternate version of that album’s “Body Memory.” “I’d started playing the song for myself in a totally different way – on echoey guitar instead of keys, with a dreamy, melancholic mood, and wanted to record it as a sort of ‘part two’,” says Jess.’
‘Already in the oven and in the mill on one of the most bloated discographies since the 2010s at King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – 17 albums in 11 years, to which Les Inrockuptibles have devoted a much-needed retrospective -, Ambrose Kenny-Smith and Cook Craig continue their way outside the Australian formation with the quintet The Murlocs. Author of 4 albums between 2014 and 2019, the Melbourne group returns to the charge with Bittersweet Demons , a brand new record scheduled for June 25 at the New York label ATO.’
