The band are coming over to North American for Austin Psych Fest and will be touring afterwards, finishing up here in NYC with shows at Baby’s All Right on May 16 & 17.
With a tongue-twisting band name, these Melburnian kids have been churning out tunes with no sign of halting.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a band doing it right in the 2010s, possessing tangible savvy and consistently shifting stylistic focus. Emerging from their formative stint as a collective they consolidated their lineup of seven…
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s freakadelic opus is a tunnelling cosmic jam that pushes out past the 15-minute mark, and it has certainly become the Surf Coast group’s emphatic trump card.
Oddments is ripe with multilayered, kaleidoscopic sounds, thanks to a myriad of instruments and the adroit musicians that sculpt the vibe. KGATLW masters chaotic arrangements while managing to sound like a collection of bands on each track.
The juggernaut that is King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard has been steadily gathering steam for a while now and their fourth album, Oddments, is hands down their best record yet.
There’s no easy way to describe Melbourne’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s easy to call them “psychedelic” since their sound is often collaged and erratic, but on Oddments, they’re so many things.
Titled Oddments, the new album is due to drop in February, following swiftly on from the September 2013 release of the psychedelically tinged but garage-in-spirit
Titled Oddments, the new album is due to drop in February, following swiftly on from the September 2013 release of the psychedelically tinged but garage-in-spirit
Now a second batch of bands have been added to the 10th Birthday guest list, the biggest new name on the Gum Ball 2014 roll-call being the might King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard.
Now a second batch of bands have been added to the 10th Birthday guest list, the biggest new name on the Gum Ball 2014 roll-call being the might King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard.
…while King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard plays adjacent on the O’Donnell Gardens Stage and Bob Evans takes on the Alfred Square Stage.
Contrast is what the seven-strong collective does well, they exude a slacker mentality yet are relentless with recording and touring, and delve into the depths of ockerism while professing brazen wit.
Three songs illustrate the blend of psychedelia, pop sensibility and irreverent humour that underpins King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s latest record, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs.
This week on Respect the Rock, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Stu Mackenzie and Eric Moore joined Nicole TadPole in the studio for a chat.
