“Crumbling Castle” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

"Crumbling Castle" took the long road onto Polygondwanaland, the album King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released in November 2017, the fourth of five they put out that year. The Australian psych-rockers were already playing a much shorter version live in September 2016, then it went quiet for months while the band kept up its furious work rate, long enough to start talk that it had been scrapped. It resurfaced on the album's demos, which leaked to SoundCloud in April 2017 and were soon pulled.

Stu Mackenzie wrote and produced it and plays a small orchestra's worth of parts: guitar, bass, synthesizer, flute and marimba, sharing vocals with Bullant. Cook Craig adds electric guitar, Michael Cavanagh drums and percussion, Ambrose Kenny-Smith harmonica. The band released the whole album under a Creative Commons license and put the master tapes online for anyone to use, remixers included.

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