After playing its first-ever Florida shows last summer, Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard has announced a return to the Sunshine State.
Today, the Gizz—which has released more than two dozen studio LPs and 16 live albums since 2012—announced a new run of North American and European tour dates, including a pair of shows to close out the tour in November 2024.
There are no Tampa Bay area gigs, but the Gizzverse lands at St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Nov. 20 ($52-$87) and shuts down for the year at Factory Town in Miami on Nov. 21.
It’s safe to say that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will have more albums out by the time it comes back to Florida, but the sextet just released its synth-heavy 25th studio album, The Silver Cord, late last month. The album has two iterations: a 28-minute pop and hook-laden version, and an 88-minute extended cut that lets itself sprawl out and get lost in synthesizers from across the generations.
“We’re testing the boundaries of people’s attention spans when it comes to listening to music, perhaps – but I’m heavily interested in destroying such concepts,” Stu Mackenzie, Gizzard’s singer/guitarist, wrote in a press release.
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This article appears in 11-02-2023.