DIY Magazine details new King Gizzard album and shares “Gamma Knife”
DIY Magazine
No matter how many albums it takes, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are going to make the world stand up and listen.
No matter how many albums it takes, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are going to make the world stand up and listen.
If you want to understand how fluid the genre signifier “psych” can be, consider what a vast spectrum of sounds King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored throughout their discography.
After dabbling Brubeck-y jazz and gentle acoustics, Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back in hyperactive psych mode on new album Nonagon Infinity, which will be out via ATO on April 29.
Aussie music machine King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have revealed full details of yet another studio album. Following the release of both Quarters and Paper Mache Dream Balloon in 2015, the septet will now follow them up with the April-bound Nonagon Infinity.
Si je découvre King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard avec cet album, ce collectif australien sort en fait son 7ème opus en 3 ans!
Let’s all just take a moment to step back and reflect on what’s been happening in realm of Australian music over the past decade, particularly across the southern coast. To say that the once arid musical wasteland from whence INXS, AC/DC and a slew of other acronymic cock-rockers emerged in the pre-Internet age has undergone something of a renaissance would be an understatement.
Every once in a blue moon, there comes along a band that will raise the musical bar and work standard of how a unit should operate. A rare breed that will continuously challenge what will be expected of them, but in turn keep producing records of such substantial merit that they do not get tiresome, predictable, or cliche.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Now say it again with an Australian accent. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Too funny right? This is probably one of my favourite bands, yet such a random one.
With their gonzo band name and mind-bending music released at a rate of a couple of albums a year, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are the latest Australian psychedelic group making an impact.
After the vicious, noisy and quite brilliant assault of support band YAK is over, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arrive to what sounds like ghost train music.
Nous ne savons pas trop ce que prennent ces sept australiens, ou tout simplement s’ils prennent quelque chose.
Awesomely named Aussie psych-rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard channels elements of the vintage Smiley Smile, Hurdy Gurdy Man, and The Village Green Preservation Society LPs by the Beach Boys, Donovan, and The Kinks, respectively, for their latest endeavor.
Off the back of a raucous Sydney show this week that we named perhaps the best show of 2016, Canadian Mac Demarco and a bunch of his ragtag mates have planned a mammoth Perth show in lieu of the cancelled Southbound Festival, due to WA’s raging bushfires.
2015 was another big year over here at the Horseshack. Across the seven choice studios, across the world, that we invite the best musicians in the world to, we recorded and posted just under 1000 new sessions. We are happy to present the 100 sessions that stood out most from the crowd, for whatever reason.
Today’s Song of the Day is “Bone” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Their album, Paper Mache Dream Balloon, is out now.
This garage-psych band from the land down under sure does freak me out. Expecting more of the ragingly unkempt sonic shout-outs that shone like a veritable watermark on some of their earlier work (notably 2014’s Oddments and this year’s Quarters!) I was surprised by what amounts to self-restraint on their seventh full length effort, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon.
As Melbourne ensemble takes a breather with experimental folky album, it readies its most ambitious release to date.
Depuis son arrivée fracassante sur nos ondes avec le maelström psychédélique de “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz”, la bande de freaks australienne de King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard est dans l’œil du cyclone.
“King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard released their new album Paper Mâché Dream Balloon last week and if you haven’t heard it yet it’s streaming through the service of your choice (we’ve got Spotify below). The record eschews their crazed psych-garage in favor of acoustic instruments, jazzy arrangements and more than a little flute…”
“It should be no surprise that Paper Mâché Dream Balloon moves into a different direction on their ATO Records debut which finds the group lightening the mood with shorter and bouncier songs that believe it or not, have a catchy flute as its driving instrument. I know it sounds odd but that is KGATLW and even though fans may have an initial hard time swallowing it (like I did), I encourage that Paper Mâché Dream Balloon be given its proper spin because all of the weirdness and groove you enjoy from KGATLW is in here…”
“Dream Balloon doesn’t lose the big, loping, surf-Kraut grooves, and the squad channels a more restrained Canned Heat on the album’s longest track, the four-and-a-half minute “Bitter Boogie.” Finding the unknown halfway point between Woods and Thee Oh Sees, everything is glistening and golden across the lands of the fair and just King Gizzard…”
“Breaking from the album’s general tone, “Trapdoor” is reminiscent of the nervous tension of They Might Be Giants, and they echo Canned Heat’s “On the Road Again” on “The Bitter Boogie,” with Ambrose Kenny Smith providing bluesy harmonica. But if the lyrics occasionally suggest a darker side below a giddy blast of sunshine, the irresistible sound of unison flute and guitar on “Time = Fate” will redirect your focus toward the light…”
“he decision to record without the use of any electric instruments gives PMDB a playful touch, even with all of the monsters lurking beneath its bed. There’s a distinct flavour of the Monkees, Beatles, Nuggets, and other 60s psych mainstays (The Byrds, Love et al.). In almost the same vein as the cheeky title of “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds”, KG&TLW are able to take the gentle melodies and use them as a first layer for much rougher psychic state on top. Album opener “Sense” contains an absolutely delicious flute riff, and in a style comparable to smooth-jazz…”
” Marlon Williams puts his choir boy-meets-punk rocker touch on country music, King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard brings us back to the sunny ’60s and Savages forcefully reminds us that love is the answer…”
“Melbourne-based King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard started in 2010 and has slowly but surely evolved from garage band and into psychedelia, krautrock, and experimentalism. With their latest effort Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, due on November 13 via ATO Records, the expands that blueprint further. Their latest track “Trapdoor” is a funky one, using a syncopated groove with punctuation from flute riffs, echo-heavy violin, and lots of of shaker. Stream the track for the first time below…
“Prolific Australian psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released the raucous Quarters on Castle Face back in May and will release a second 2015 album, the gentler Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, on ATO this November, and they just wrapped up a tour supporting all of it. The tour concluded in NYC last night (9/16) at Music Hall of Williamsburg with the Burger-signed Michael Rault and the Captured Tracks-signed EZTV…”
“King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon
Yes, it’s the sort of band name and song title that gets you lacing up your sturdiest hippy-kicking boots..”
“Psychedelic rock is a pretty broad category, and over the course of six albums and two EPs, Aussie space cadets King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored various corners of that sonic universe…”
“”FYF always features buzz-worthy breakout candidates, such as FKA Twigs and Tobias Jesso Jr. And there are acts we’re not entirely familiar with but, based on their names alone, we’d want to check out: Horse Meat Disco? King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard? Count us in!..”
“Winner of the just-now-created “Best Band Name Ever” award, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard start Sunday off right with some psychedelic tunes…”