New Zealand outfit LUNG have spent more than three decades treating noise rock as a household appliance, between a blender and a faulty electrical socket, and Isolated Gun finds the trio operating at full voltage. The opening track from their latest album Fog begins with James Woods’s bass grinding while Zak White locks into a heavy, circular beat. Dave White then throws sheets of guitar across the room with the cheerful abandon of a man who has discovered that the security deposit was never paid.
Sonic Youth, Swans, Fugazi, and Pixies provide coordinates, though LUNG retain the character of New Zealand noise rock: dry, stubborn, spacious, and capable of making repetition feel dangerous. Isolated Gun draws its lyrics from She’s Got a Gun, first released on the band’s 1991 debut Cactii, while borrowing the rhythmic foundation of Isolation from 2024’s Cancer. This act of self-cannibalism suits them. Bands have been recycling old riffs since somebody noticed that three chords were easier to remember than tax law.
“We always liked the lyrics to She’s Got a Gun,” says White. “Marrying them to the drumbeat from Isolation gave us Isolated Gun – a classic love/hate song with a little extra sonic edge that’s great fun to play live.”
The accompanying video makes good on that promise. Filmed, directed, and edited by Alan Beere of TrustFundKid111, it places LUNG in the hallway of Dave White’s Wellington home, surrounded by friends as though a house party has been interrupted by an especially committed rehearsal. The intimacy recalls Tiny Desk, provided somebody dragged the whole kit n’ caboodle into a narrow corridor and replaced polite applause with structural damage. Shot in under half an hour, with principal photography finished by 9 a.m. and edits delivered later that day, the clip catches the band without ornamental fuss.
“We like to work fast and furious and give it everything in one quick blast,” says White. “That’s how we recorded Fog, and Alan immediately understood that approach. What you see is us — a genuine snapshot of our live performance and a taste of what audiences and promoters can expect.”
Watch the video for Isolated Gun below:
Recorded over two days at The Surgery in Newtown with engineer Lee Prebble, Fog carries that speed into every bruise and bend. “Isolated Gun” opens the record with blunt momentum, elastic menace, and enough guitar abrasion to exfoliate a brick. LUNG remain gloriously committed to music that rattles the furniture while reminding the furniture who owns the house.
Described by founder and frontman Dave White as their “most raw, fucked up, brutal, honest work to date”, and “possibly the most punk we’ve become”, Fog is the sixth full-length studio LP from influential New Zealand band LUNG.
“These songs range from odes to hippies past, to flatmates’ cats, evil American arseholes, and simple not pop songs. Play it loud. Not joking. Lung have muscular schizophrenia of the highest grade and will make you dance, fall over, laugh and drink…”
Formed from a late line-up of The Clear (1988-91), LUNG over the course of the early-to-mid 1990s became known for a dark, angular, grinding blend of post-punk, no wave, noise-rock, post-hardcore and quasi-industrial influences: likened to New Zealand’s Skeptics, Gordons and Bailter Space, and on the global stage to Einstürzende Neubauten, The Fall, Big Black, and Butthole Surfers.
Disbanding in late 1994 at the end of their second US tour, founding members Dave White (vocals, guitar, keys) and the late Phil Williscroft (bass) later reunited in 2019, with Dave’s son Zak White taking over from original drummer Brent Gemmill. Dave and Zak White are now joined on bass by LUNG’s touring sound engineer since the 1990s, James Woods, now also of Beastwars.
Released 24 January 2026 on Yellow Bike Records, Fog by LUNG is available on vinyl LP and digital download from Bandcamp, and streaming from all the usual digital music outlets.
Lung’s Fog is out now. Listen to Isolated Gun below, and order the album here.
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