![]() ![]() Are you guys a remedy to that, with the universe building and the accelerated pace of output always asking us to slow down and spend time with the work? Listening to a record about apocalypse and technology suggests themes acceleration, that our pace of absorbing and consuming everything is speeding up at a rate we can’t keep up with. The only people I can think of with a similar work ethic to you guys are Neil Young, Ty Segall, and John Dwyer. “Let’s do this kind of ’s challenging us, and it adds some sort of meaning into the worlds of our own personal universes that we all exist within.” It might be a completely long-winded version of the story, but you’ve got me talking. Maybe…this album might be a bit of a puke. King Gizzard released the album with the suggestion that they had a total of five releases planned for this year alone, and yesterday, upon announcing their second release of 2017, Murder of the Universewould be released June 23 on ATO, devotees plundered the track list, divided into three chapters, for clues about what their vision of cataclysmic apocalypse sounds like. The band has thrown their own festival, Gizzfest, back in Melbourne for the last two years, giving a prominent stage to fellow Aussies like paisley groovers Orb and the hallucinogenic sisters of Victoria’s Stonefield, both of whom are currently traveling the States with The Gizz on the Flying Microtonal Banana tour.īanana comes to a climax on “Nuclear Fusion,” when frontman Stu Mackenzie sings that the devil’s in the details and his spirit leaves his body to fly through a world of radiation. Their community has grown exponentially in a remarkably short time. Among them, there’s the Spaghetti Western story unfolding on Eyes Like the Sky, the pummeling garage-psych headfuck of I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, the endless loop connecting the first and final notes of Nonagon Infinity, the AM-pop leaning, largely acoustic Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, and this year’s exercise in Eastern microtones, intervals and notes that Western musical notation doesn’t consider called Flying Microtonal Banana. ![]() One fan posted to their socials “It’s been 5 days since they last released any new music, was starting to think we’d never get anything from them again”.Over just five years, King Gizzard have released nine albums of adjunct, wholly realized visions for adventurous ears. The most recent ‘Changes’ peaked at no 4. In 2022, three of the five releases reached the Top 10 of the ARIA chart. The label even opened its own record store in Melbourne, in Lygon Street, Brunswick East.Ģ022 wasn’t the first time King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released five albums. The festival is now also held in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide as well as Melbourne. The first Gizzfest was held in 2015 at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel. The label then designed its own live events. One time member Eric Moore founded Flightless Records back in 2012 to release King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s music, along with their associated acts The Murlocs, Tropical Fuck Storm and Amyl and the Sniffers. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard don’t have to listen to any record exec because they are their own label. While other bands were listening to their labels, working to the marketing dudes strategy and designing their music for the radio, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard threw the rule book out the window, and it made their one of Australia’s most successful exports in 2022. Melbourne’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released their 19th studio album this year … and their 20th … and their 21st … and their 22nd … and their 23rd. ![]()
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