“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…”
“Melbourne’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have established themselves as one of the most charismatic outfits on the live circuit. Not to mention one of the most prolific when it comes to recording too…”
And then the pros took the stage. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards pulled the full crowd, and Fowlers was packed. Their music is thrashy and wild, while still holding tight to a clean sound.
Melbourne garage rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have both found themselves slated into two US music festivals this upcoming September: Life is Beautiful Music and Art Festival & Hopscotch Music Festival
It’s been 182 days between King Gizzard albums – but they’ve sated our appetite with four more curious tracks, each exactly 10 minutes and 10 seconds long.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard continue their celebratory week of announcements with the revelation of details for the Brisbane iteration of the band’s multi-stage event GIZZFEST following Sydney’s turn yesterday.
Tireless collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have raised the stakes yet again, announcing a ridiculous roster for their inaugural Gizzfest, which takes over The Corner for one arvo and three nights this May.
It’s the opening track on the band’s new record, Quarters, set to release from Heavenly Recordings on the 25th of May.
The new album, which is due out on Friday, 1 May, through Flightless/Remote Records, is already shaping up to be rather an epic-sounding progress, with the band revealing that the album will contain only four tracks — but that each will clock in with a running time of 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
The single edit of ‘God Is in the Rhythm’ clocks in under four minutes but the full 10 minute album version will make up a quarter of the record.
With the release of their fifth record, I’m on Your Mind Fuzz the psychedelic garage waves of Melbourne, Australia’s with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard continue to reach new ears.
The six acts added fall into the rock and alternative genres. They include Bertie Blackman, Lanie Lane, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Daily Meds and the alternative jazz group Krakatau.
I’m in Your Mind Fuzz isn’t easily categorized. But as varied as King Gizzard are, they’ve established one surefire safe bet with each record: They implement their “more is more” approach for maximum impact. Their songs are dense, intricately crafted, and most importantly, powerful.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is a wholly suitable name for this seven-piece Australian psychedelic outfit, who metaphorically throw DayGlo paint at the studio walls without regard for taste – blues harmonica, double drummers, flute, beaty pop, heavily treated vocals – and see what emerges.
Another psychedelic throwback – this one, like so many others, from Australia – and I’m starting to wonder what sustains them. Save for The Flaming Lips, when was the last time you heard this type of music on even some tiny, low wattage underground radio?
The seven members of Australia’s prolific King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have cultivated a dimension of sound that swerves and swirls with an arrangement of drums, guitar, and theremin. On November 11, the band released their fifth album in under three years, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were a bevy of noises, with two drummers, a harmonica and synth player and at times, two bassists. Their set was loud, rhythmic and full of raw energy. The band took no breaks between songs, preferring to segue in lengthy psychedelic jams.
Opens with the most electrifying combination of songs the band have concocted to date.
The Magnificent Seven are doing so well that their record will get some prominent worldwide coverage this Monday. Can’t say too much but exciting times.
