The Disco Biscuits Preview Space-Themed Rock Opera With ‘Shocked!’ Single

The Disco Biscuits released the new studio single “Shocked!” today and the track was accompanied by the first clues about the plot and other details regarding an interstellar rock opera the band is prepping. The new song features guitarist Jon Gutwillig on lead vocals and was written with lyricist Joey Friedman.

“Shocked!” is one of 14 new songs debuted live by the jamtronica quartet between June and December 2022 that are rumored to be part of the space-themed rock opera. The Disco Biscuits premiered “Shocked!” on August 26, 2022 at The Intersection in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eight additional versions have followed since including an 11-minute take on Wednesday night at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont.

It appears “Shocked!” opens the space rock opera from the phrasing of the note shared with the studio cut. The Disco Biscuits are “rolling through outerspace” in the number as Barber sings. Read what the band revealed about the plot:

Every story has to start somewhere, and ours starts with Shocked!

Somewhere in deep space many galaxies away, an electronically-evolved alien spaceship captain is flying fast and living dangerously…approaching the inevitably messy end to an intergalactic bender.

Buckling under the weight of royal expectations, our captain and his crew have been taking fuzzies and getting shocked off the ship’s electronic power source, the polyfuzaline crystal, frying their circuits and blasting them into a psychedelic stupor.

Teetering on the edge of derangement, but forever loyal to each other, we join this gang of extra-terrestrial malcontents just as their circumstances are about to change forever.

Listen to the Disco Biscuits’ “Shocked!” studio single below: