King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announce Album Entropy, Due 4 December

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a new album, Entropy, and it will be released on 4 December. The band also announced two North American tours, one in August and one in October, according to Pitchfork.

Entropy is a companion to the band's previous album, Alien Metal. Frontman Stu Mackenzie said the two records were originally planned for release at the same time. Companion albums are records made as a pair, so one can be heard as an extension of the other.

The new album has eight tracks: "Aeon", "Heaven & Hell", "Hard Sync", "Rogue Wave", "Angel", "To Mercury…", "Face of the Earth", and the title track, "Entropy". "Rogue Wave" is the first single, the song released ahead of the album to introduce it.

Mackenzie also gave the musical details that set the two records apart. The tracks on Alien Metal run at 143 beats per minute (bpm, a measure of tempo, or how fast the music moves) in F sharp. The tracks on Entropy run at 160 bpm in the key of A. The key is the home note and scale a song is built around, so the two albums are pitched in different places as well as moving at different speeds.

The album arrives on 4 December, and the tours are set for August and October. For fans who want to hear the pair side by side, the release date and the first single are the place to start.