King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Complete 28th Album, Tease a Techno Turn

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard posted a video to Instagram on April 24 with the caption “Album done.” The clip was not a studio diary or a muted acoustic sketch. It was a full-throttle blast of techno, built from sequencing patterns and a driving kick, with band members seated before wired synthesizers triggering sounds that read as deliberate and club ready.

The turn toward electronic music lands just months after the orchestral sweep of 2025’s Phantom Island, an album that leaned into strings and widescreen arrangements. The new material, if the snippet is any guide, pulls hard in the opposite direction. The band’s catalog already absorbs prog, thrash metal, microtonal rock, and boogie, but this is first contact with techno as a primary mode. It fits a pattern. King Gizzard don’t try on genres as costume. They wear each one until it breaks.

The album will be their 28th studio release, and no title or date has surfaced. As with their recent output, it’s almost certain to arrive via the band’s own p(doom) Records. The clip offers no narrative, just the fact of completion and a sound that leaves little ambiguity about where they are headed. For a group that rarely stands still, the news is less about surprise and more about the simple confirmation that the next idea is already fully formed.