![]() It’s all there in “ Crumbling Castle,” the album’s towering 11-minute opener. Instead, they use all that musicianship to craft an otherworldly rhythmic swirl. (Running errands earlier today, I just about broke my brain attempting to drum along on the steering wheel.) But King Gizzard aren’t jam-band or tech-metal types the technical dexterity is never the point. The songs are all in unfamiliar time signatures they’re math problems that I can’t quite comprehend. King Gizzard built Polygondwanaland out of intricate, overlapping grooves. And if we don’t get that fifth album this year, I can’t imagine anyone will be disappointed, since the new Polygondwanaland is, at least from where I’m sitting, easily the strongest of the four and probably the best album I’ve heard from this band yet. Sketches Of Brunswick East, from August, was the most laid-back of the records, its jazz-damaged mutant pop shot through with English folk and Ethiopian highlife influences. In June, they followed it with Murder Of The Universe, an album full of short bursts of drooling, freaked-out aggression, like what might have happened if the late-’60s Stooges had tried to play early Pink Floyd-style prog-rock. But for a psych-rock band in 2017, King Gizzard’s four-to-date albums still amount to a herculean feat - partly because of the sheer volume of music, and partly because each album has its own sense of character.įor Flying Microtonal Banana, the album they released in February, King Gizzard tuned all their guitars to microtonal intervals, which had the effect of giving all their songs a staring-into-infinity krautrock enormity that meshed fascinatingly with the garage-rock intensity that comes naturally to the band. In 2009, Gucci Mane released two studio albums and eight mixtapes. Creedence Clearwater Revival released five in 19 alone. ![]() The Beatles released six albums between 19. ![]() Once upon a time, bands used to crank out new albums at ridiculous rates. Polygondwanaland, their fourth of the year, is out in the world now, released as a free download on the band’s website. As I’m writing this, King Gizzard now have a month and a half to come out with another album. At the end of last year, the Australian psych-rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard made a grand and absurd pronouncement: They would release five brand-new studio albums during the 2017 calendar year.
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