King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

King Gizz are keeping their two a year pace with a new full length to cap a pretty incredible year. Always ones to keep the audience wary and on their toes, they exit the jazz rock conceptual phase of Quarters and the dog-eared burnt psych of I'm In Your Mind Fuzz to take things down several notches... volume-wise, at least. The band self-imposed an "acoustic instruments only" policy on the record, roped together some sounds they'd previously never explored (clarinet, cello, double bass) and headed to a shipping container on Stu Mackenzie's parents farm to record this sucker. The result is a pretty captivating and lilting collection of pop songs that embraces the pastoral background of its origins nicely. The darkness that's billowed at the corners of their previous work is lifted somewhat and they get back to the weirdness and free spirit rambling of Oddments but still present some of their most easily accessible songs yet. The long winding jam is ever the band's forte and while they may have turned the electricity off they haven't exactly lost their ability to bend a song into a frantic bit of blues that explodes into 70's tinged stadium-sized glory. The band was always meant for more ears and it seems this may be the final push they need. But, hell, who knows what comes from here, the fun seems to be in guessing where they'll hop to next.

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