"Some of Us" is a single released by Australian

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band

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (KGLW) are an Australian Rock music, rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band's current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Coo ...

on August 13, 2020, that was included on their sixteenth studio album '' K.G.''.

Composition

The song's lyrics stated that "Some of Us" are calling out those who ignore the warning signs of bigotry and prejudice with a reminder that “everything turns into dust” as well as directly mentioning how the

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pandemic fueled xenophobia across the world. '' Some of Us'' was written by

Cook Craig Nicholas Roderick "Cook" Craig is an Australian musician, singer and songwriter and is a part of groups King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the Murlocs. Craig releases music under the name Pipe-eye. Solo history Pipe-eye's debut EP ''Cosmic ...

as a demo in 2019, and is sung by

Stu Mackenzie Stuart Douglas Mackenzie (born 26 October 1990) is an Australian musician best known as the frontman of rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. He serves as singer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the band and is recognized as its le ...

Release

A music video directed, edited and shot by John Angus Stewart, was released on August 13, 2020 alongside a single release. The release would come shortly after the release of

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, and before ''K.G.'' had even been announced. The video was recorded on a

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with Stewart pretending to be in the military to buy it. It would be the last video released before the departure of Eric Moore on August 25th, 2020, though he had no involvement in the video or ''K.G.''.

Reception

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described "Some of Us" as a "jerky and chaotic and barreling track."

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described it as "warped and hypnotic" and gave high praise to its lyrics and music video. X-Press Magazine gave the single a 7/10, describing the song as a "marriage between King Gizzard and

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" but that it "doesn’t flash any new tricks from the Gizz for once."

References

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