King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “Grow Wings And Fly” [Video]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard recently announced their 27th album Phantom Island, out June 13th on their own p(doom) records, and have since unveiled two glimpses into their lushly orchestrated and most ambitious album to date: the jazz-tinged title track, and the absolute rave-up “Deadstick.” Today, the band share the third offering from the Island, the tender-yet-propulsive “Grow Wings and Fly.” The accompanying video clip features an aquatic Ambrose Kenny-Smith being gently returned to the waters from whence he came. Find yourself someone that looks lovingly into your eyes the way Joey Walker does to Kenny-Smith.

“There are so many strange and beautiful ways to grow wings and fly,” explains video director Hayden Somerville. “We had a very special time down the coast with the band and our crew, releasing our sea creature—who somehow makes me feel a little ill and completely full of joy at the same time.”

Phantom Island marks the band’s second release on their own (p)doom records label, and sees our intrepid heroes add a new dimension to their ever-evolving songcraft, embracing the symphonic and embroidering their tangles of lysergic riff and melody with strings and horns and woodwind.

If Flight b741 was an album of rambunctious adventure stories, Phantom Island picks up that thread, spinning its tales of quests and piracy out into the stars. But it’s a more interior album than its predecessor, more melancholy – more “introverted”, bandleader Stu Mackenzie says. Sure, these are tales of high adventure in galaxies far, far away, but the focus is less on the action, and more on the interior lives of those adventurers, reflecting the kind of insight Gizz have gleaned from 15 years of travelling the world and leaving their homes behind to take their music to the people. There’s a wiser, more mature, more sensitive Gizz at play here, questioning their place within the universe, their responsibilities, the ties that bind. “When I was younger, I was just interested in freaking people out,” admits Mackenzie, “but as I get older, I’m much more interested in connecting with people.”

King Gizzard will embark on their 2025 Phantom Island orchestral tour this July. Featuring a different accompanying 29-piece orchestra in each city – and ably led by conductor & music director Sarah Hicks – the tour will see the group perform with some of the country’s most renowned ensembles, before concluding with Field of Vision, the band’s own 3-day residency camping event at Meadow Creek in Buena Vista, CO. This represents the band’s only U.S. tour of 2025, so don’t miss out on your fix for a full calendar year. A full list of dates are below with tickets available here.

PRE-ORDER PHANTOM ISLAND

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD TOUR DATES
Sun. May 18 – Tue. May 20 – Lisbon, PT @ Coliseu dos Recreios *
Fri. May 23 – Sun. May 25 – Barcelona, ES @ Poble Espanyol *
Thu. May 29 – Sat. May 31 – Vilnius, LT @ Lukiškės Prison 2.0 ^
Wed. June 4 – Fri. June 6 – Athens, GR @ Lycabettus Theatre City of Athens #
Sun. June 8 – Tue. June 10 – Plovdiv, BG @ Ancient Theatre ^

Fri. June 13 – Sun. June 15 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

Mon. July 28 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion At The Mann (w/ Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia) $
Wed. July 30 – New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl (w/ Orchestra of St. Luke’s) $
Fri. August 1 – Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (w/ Orchestra of St. Luke’s) $
Sat. August 2 – Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (Rock ‘n Roll Show) $
Mon. August 4 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
(w/ National Symphony Orchestra) $
Wed. August 6 – Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival (w/ Chicago Philharmonic) $
Fri. August 8 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Ford Amphitheater (w/ Colorado Symphony) $
Sun. August 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl (w/ Hollywood Bowl Orchestra) $
Mon. August 11 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park (w/ San Diego Symphony Orchestra) $

Fri. August 15 – Sun. August 17 – Buena Vista, CO @ FIELD OF VISION at Meadow Creek %

Fri. October 31 – Manchester, UK @ Aviva Studios (Rave Set)
Sat. November 1 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton (Rave Set)
Sun. November 2 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton (Rave Set)
Tue. November 4 – London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall (w/ Covent Garden Sinfonia)
Wed. November 5 – Paris, FR @ La Seine Musicale (w/ L’Orchestre Lamoureux)
Thu. November 6 – Tilburg, NL @ 013 (Rave Set)
Fri. November 7 – Den Bosch, NL @ MAINSTAGE ( w/ Sinfonia Rotterdam)
Sun. November 9 – Gdansk, PL @ Inside Seaside Festival
(w/ The Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra)
Mon. November 10 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle (Rave Set)
Tue. November 11 – Prague, CZ @ SaSaZu (Rave Set)
Wed. November 12 – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer (Rave Set)
Fri. November 14 – Copenhagen, DK @ Poolen (Rave Set)
Sat. November 15 – Gothenburg, SE @ Gothenburg Film Studios (Rave Set)

* w/ Etran De L’Aïr
^ w/ King Stingray
# w/ King Stingray, DJ Crenshaw
$ w/ DJ Crenshaw
% w/ Babe Rainbow, Gaye Su Akyol, King Stingray, Mannequin Pussy, Memo PST, Pearl Charles, The Mystery Lights, The Songs For Kids Band!, White Fence, DJ Crenshaw