King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have dropped ‘Hog Calling Contest’, the latest offering from their 26th LP, Flight b741 – out August 9 via their own p(doom) records. It follows lead single ‘Le Risque’. Along with the track, the band has shared a mini-documentary about the making of the album, Oink Oink Flight b741: The Making of…, directed by Guy Tyzack. Check it out and listen to the new song below.
“While recording Flight b741, we occasionally had these ultra inspired tune-up/warm-up jams,” the band commented in a press release. “Of course, we were never actually recording during these moments though. Lost to time. Except one time; This time. We learnt to record these moments; ‘Daily Blues’ came together this way too. But ‘Hog Calling Contest’ retains a unique unhinged-ness that only comes when you’re fooling around with your mates and you don’t think you’re being recorded. Happy in mud!”
Tyzack said of the documentary: “We were tasked with capturing the band make an album from scratch in two weeks, they purposefully didn’t prepare much for the recordings so it was very difficult for me to plan what to film. I just knew they’d be in one room and three of them might drop out at any moment because they were expecting babies. The room looked brown and boring so I painted it like the sky to match the theme of the album in one 17hr stretch with three friends and a slab of mids.”