![]() In my view, this band embodies the spirit of creativity in a time of content monetization and algorithmic curation. I love their no-rules approach to making music.Ī meme about the amount of music King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released in 2022. This is, to me, the greatest marker of success: the ability to produce whatever you want and make a living from it. So much of what Stu, Ambrose, Joey, Cook, Lucas and Cavs have done is atypical for a modern band: The whirlwind releases creating a perpetual buzz, the borderless style weaving through genres like a downhill skier past guide rods on the slope, the range of complexity employed in their composition and the feeling that none of it was done at the behest of “the suits” at a record label pushing for more of “what sells”. I think it boils down to the ethos of the band musically and professionally, the fan culture, and of course, the music. ![]() It’s challenging to articulate why I love this band so much. "Change" and "Short Change" incorporate all of these vibes in a kaleidoscopic fever dream of tones and grooves that bookend the entire album quite nicely.Ī borderless style with no care for “what sells” " The smoky and mellow tones of "Exploding Suns" sound like it was meant for Sketches of Brunswick East, Gizzard’s 2017 collaboration with Mild High Club (which was this grateful fan’s on-ramp to Gizzverse). " "No Body " is a rock ballad using its inside voice that descends into the synth-laden, driving beat of "Gondii. ![]() ![]() "Hate Dancin’" is a soft-spoken pop earworm, followed by the horn-punctuated, funk-adjacent "Astroturf. Mackenzie has explained that the concept was fairly simple (each song is built around a pendulous key shift between two alternating scales with every chord-change), yet out of range for the band when initially conceived five years ago.Įach song on the album was spawned by a different section of the opening track, "Change," a 13-minute long blend of prog-rock and pop reminiscent of the ‘60’s and keyboards that sound like they were pulled straight from an R&B album. Changes year-long incubation has really paid off. ![]()
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