RISING // KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
We just kind of ran out of patience with that one. The first five tracks had some related themes, but I think we wrote some songs like pass way through making that record that really felt like they fit really well on the album, but maybe didn’t work with that kind of concept. We had a few other concepts that were tied up to that one that we kind of abandoned that in favor of other things, you know, evolving into a different base. The album’s construction is just brilliant, which each song mutates from one into the next, turning into an infinitely looping album. It basically never ends. What led you to approach these songs that way?
“It’s ethereal in its concept,” Edwards explains. “There are many layers, as always. I’ve been paying attention to the stars in the sky and in literature, and it’s a theme throughout the album.” He adds, “There’s more love song style on this in general, which is nice. The idea of what love is and how it’s expressed and all these different atmospheres.” Relapse Records has announced the signing of King Woman. They have recently recorded their debut full-length, Created In the Image Of Suffering, with engineer Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden. The album will
It was just a lot of practice and a lot of thinking about how it was going to work. If we wanted, we could play it in one go or it could be one performance or one song. I mean, we recorded it in separated parts because there were some improvise sections in there and little parts that kind of could go in different ways... It was tricky and we had some parts in there that kind of linked up with other parts and referencing different songs. All of it was a lot of thinking. [laughs] What’s the meaning behind the album’s title, Nonagon Infinity? Nonagon is a nine side shape and you got nine songs that are linked into a sort of circle and then you got infinity... It’s just another way of
see a release via Relapse in the Spring of 2017. Vocalist Kristina Esfandiari commented on the signing: “It feels surreal to release our first full-length through such a respectable label with a vast roster we respect so much.” King 810 are set to release their new album, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God, via Roadrunner Records on September 16th. Produced by Josh Schroeder, Justyn Pilbrow and KING 810 and recorded in Bay City, MI, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God is far from a retread of their acclaimed debut, Memoirs Of A Murderer. This new release, La Petite
making it clear about what’s happening on the record. You guys are currently on tour, so how’s it going and how has been like to convey the studio recordings of the album into the live experience? It’s been really good. This record translates really well live and more easily than Paper Mâché Dream Balloon [2015]. A lot of these songs are being played for a long time, maybe through a year now and they kind of evolved and changed in many ways. We let them evolve and change and we sort of jam for this record. It’s been pretty smooth with this record.
NONAGON INFINITY IS OUT NOW VIA ATO RECORDS
Mort – translating to “The Little Death”– is an inspired body of work that marks a profound evolutionary leap forthe restless, driven souls of KING 810. The title is a reference to the dual themes of the record: Flint’s real life violence and despair which builds the basis of frontman David Gunn’s narrative and secondly, the steady desensitization and terminal shut down of the human spirit that is experienced under those conditions. Entwined around that conceptual core is an omnipresent haze of desperation and dark sexuality that provides the album with some of its most unnerving moments.
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