Australian psychedelic and progressive rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are one of the most unique bands of the last decade. They’re coming from another side of the world, Australia, but their sound is globally inclusive. They were influenced by many different eras and instruments such as Turkish baglama and Turkish psychedelic rock era in the 60s and 70s. They had a pretty good run since their debut in 2010. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard promised to release five albums in 2017 and they kept it. Each one of them has a different approach to music and genre. To get familiar with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, these are some gateway albums; Flying Microtonal Banana, Sketches of Brunswick East, and Polygondwanaland. Each one of them has a different approach to their style by the way.
And now there’s something special about their latest album Butterfly 3000. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released the album on June 11th, and a few days later they started to premiere music videos for each song in the album. The album includes 10 songs and the band usually releases their music videos on Tuesday. But it might change to Wednesday as well.
Personally, I discovered this strategy on animation and motion artist Jamie Wolfe’s piece for Dreams on Vimeo. Then I saw other videos on the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s YouTube channel. I was going to wait until the streak finishes but couldn’t wait. I’ll list all the videos as the tracklist goes and you can find the links and information for the artists alongside the music videos.
There’s only one main theme and imagery goes beyond all the music videos. It’s the butterfly. You can see them in one form or another and this glues every video to each other. It’s subtle, humble, and brilliant to see something like this happens. You might think hundreds of people worked for each video but it’s not entirely true. The music videos with live-action narratives require big teams but in the meantime, some videos are directed, wrote, animated, and designed by one artist. That channels so much control to the outcome and the vision shines. I hope this album will give me the same chills as Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach and Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555!
So, grab popcorn or whatever you prefer for these types of visual journeys, and let’s sail!
Yours
Shot and Directed by John Angus Stewart, Produced by Max Coles Assistant Producer – Euan Kelly
1st Assistant Camera – Ashley Goodall, Maree Prokos, Euan Kelly
Colour Grading – Bella Walker
Still Photography – Jamie Wdziekonski, Tim Fenby
Designed, directed & edited by Guy Tyzack
Director of photography and drone – Clayton Smith
Assistant Camera/Gaffer – Jacques Poluleuligaga
Standby Props/Runner – Daniel Cato
Additional location cinematography – Guy Tyzack
Soup can graphic design by Jake McGovern
Animation – Guy Tyzack
Additional animation – Lauren Hunter
Digital to analog video processing – VideoLab
Mushroom props built by Sophia Celeste Hogan, Bob Galwey, Esther Laurance, Lucinda Reinhard, Jake McGovern, Audrey Rose Major, Jacques Poluleuligaga, Kale Ihms and Guy Tyzack
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Collabs with Marvelous Visual Artists for Their Entire Album
Australian psychedelic and progressive rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are one of the most unique bands of the last decade. They’re coming from another side of the world, Australia, but their sound is globally inclusive. They were influenced by many different eras and instruments such as Turkish baglama and Turkish psychedelic rock era in the 60s and 70s. They had a pretty good run since their debut in 2010. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard promised to release five albums in 2017 and they kept it. Each one of them has a different approach to music and genre. To get familiar with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, these are some gateway albums; Flying Microtonal Banana, Sketches of Brunswick East, and Polygondwanaland. Each one of them has a different approach to their style by the way.
And now there’s something special about their latest album Butterfly 3000. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released the album on June 11th, and a few days later they started to premiere music videos for each song in the album. The album includes 10 songs and the band usually releases their music videos on Tuesday. But it might change to Wednesday as well.
Personally, I discovered this strategy on animation and motion artist Jamie Wolfe’s piece for Dreams on Vimeo. Then I saw other videos on the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s YouTube channel. I was going to wait until the streak finishes but couldn’t wait. I’ll list all the videos as the tracklist goes and you can find the links and information for the artists alongside the music videos.
There’s only one main theme and imagery goes beyond all the music videos. It’s the butterfly. You can see them in one form or another and this glues every video to each other. It’s subtle, humble, and brilliant to see something like this happens. You might think hundreds of people worked for each video but it’s not entirely true. The music videos with live-action narratives require big teams but in the meantime, some videos are directed, wrote, animated, and designed by one artist. That channels so much control to the outcome and the vision shines. I hope this album will give me the same chills as Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach and Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555!
So, grab popcorn or whatever you prefer for these types of visual journeys, and let’s sail!
Yours
Shot and Directed by John Angus Stewart,
Produced by Max Coles
Assistant Producer – Euan Kelly
1st Assistant Camera – Ashley Goodall, Maree Prokos, Euan Kelly
Colour Grading – Bella Walker
Still Photography – Jamie Wdziekonski, Tim Fenby
Shanghai
Directed and Animated by Amanda Bonaiuto
Dreams
Directed and Animated by Jamie Wolfe
Blue Morpho
Directed and Animated by Jamie Wolfe
Interior People
Written and Directed by Ivan Dixon
Produced and animated at Studio Showoff
Catching Smoke
Written and Directed by Danny Cohen
2.02 Killer Year
Directed and Designed by Sophie Koko
3D animation by Jack Wedge & WIll Freudenheim. A Laser Days production
Black Hot Soup
Designed, directed & edited by Guy Tyzack
Director of photography and drone – Clayton Smith
Assistant Camera/Gaffer – Jacques Poluleuligaga
Standby Props/Runner – Daniel Cato
Additional location cinematography – Guy Tyzack
Soup can graphic design by Jake McGovern
Animation – Guy Tyzack
Additional animation – Lauren Hunter
Digital to analog video processing – VideoLab
Mushroom props built by Sophia Celeste Hogan, Bob Galwey, Esther Laurance, Lucinda Reinhard, Jake McGovern, Audrey Rose Major, Jacques Poluleuligaga, Kale Ihms and Guy Tyzack
Featured image from Interior People music video.
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