King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

Fuck this is good

gonna guess no

it iz it izz

https://vimeo.com/157973501

Guess again
Xpost

I liked Papier Mache Dream Balloon (or w/e it was called) well enough

normally don't trust much from this city, but they're mostly good.

It might be good. I don't regret looking at this thread.

Paper Mache Dream Balloon sounds like 90s Of Montreal, and I love it. Don't understand the drastic change in sound. They want to sound tougher I guess.

Wasn't PMDB the stylistic diversion?

New one is maybe my 2nd favorite album of the year after Black Star.

Spotify really wants me to listen to this

You should, it rules.

Turned up in Pitchfork's overlooked music list about a week ago:

http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9910-overlooked-albums-2016/

Wasn't PMDB the stylistic diversion?

yes. nonagon infinity just doubles down on the fidgety, high-energy, garage punk that's their primary through-line so far. one of my 2016 favorites, and i'm surprised it hasn't caught on with fans of tongue-in-cheek prog oddity.

yeah this is great. never listened to any of their other albums

finally listening to this, great! they really got psychedelic ants in their pants

based on this i feel like they'd be really fun live

yeah def seem "high energy"

global have you heard General Baby (local band), has a bit of this vibe but more lo-fi zappa

(it's from that whole larry wish & his guys house show axis that i don't really fully understand)

never heard of em!

General Baby don't even have a web presence, really

oops i guess they used to be fortified five that's why it's hard to find

https://fortifiedfive.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-demonstration-on-baby-talkin

Ilx doesn't love the gizzards and that's a fact.the last album is very good though.

most recent one (polygondwanaland) is super-proggy and totally rules. these aussie freaks own 2017 imho

this is one of the best bands going rn

I like them

especially their microtonal/weird tuning stuff, a lot of stuff on that Banana record sounds great.

not so keen on the new one with narration, it seems extraneous

Yeah i meant polygondwa above as their best record of the year. I wish they werent as repetitive melody wise though. Like back in the Fill Your Lungs days..

they seem like they're excellent live too- the main guy definitely borrows some john dwyer moves tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHgpVU3UuU

https://youtu.be/_Eg3OUQPayk

Gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDnOJkrRv3g

Who can report on the new one ?

bit of a psychedelic soul vibe. mellower stuff, a la paper mache dream balloon and sketches of brunswick east

Sounds like mediocre b-sides for all previous 4, except for one surprising and great doom metal/Uncle Acid style song (Great Chain Of Being)

"muddy water" sounds like a victory lap

"barefoot desert" is dope. 1 year, 64 songs. damn!

destroying all that will keep us heading for a meta-thesis

\m/

chill band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCswmcSALI

I only need to see nardwuar once every 5 years or so but that is good servietting

Friend last night: "have you heard ... they're called like ... Daniel Strudel and the Noodle Doodle?"

Omg actual lol

ILM don't care about Gizzard and you may be right at this point.Used to be great though.

ok i listened to the latest i was erm not expecting straight 86 speed metally thrash. Its not terrible i guess.

It made me think of HNIA’s different smart-ass visitation to metalfrom 2016, which was like, sunshine prog-metal(?). HNIA’s album was actually much more interesting imo.

lot of young aussie bro's really really like these dudes (and possibly drugs??)

because i'm slightly interested in what they're on about, repeated listens haven't been bad, also the guit style is more thrash than beedleybeedleybeedlebeedely. i guess ecoconscious thrash shit is closer fit for olds who are more garage or postpunk maybe. 'i have gone insane-o i lust for volcano pee with molten lava give me my nirvana' and 'auto-cremate! self-immolate!'

Taking my son to see them in a few weeks, he's a big fan. Trying to get caught up on their endless catalog. They seem like great musicians, very creative and intense, but the sheer repetition of their approach wears me down.

Which ones should I listen to if I want to hear them mix it up more? So far I've liked Flying Microtonal Banana the most, but I've barely scratched the surface.

nonagon infinity is the most accessible to early olds imo, it's relentless and stirring.

i love the first one that was my intro, which is very psych- can't remember the name, it has Head On/Pill?

I'm in Your Mindfuzz is pretty strong imo.

I was meh on Fishing For Fishies which is working that sound conceit so hard, or maybe not the sound I wanted. The recent is really fun, but it's way chewing gummy to me. Still the more I listen, there more I am charmed by it.

I can't remember Polygondwanaland, so...

I was half-hoping the new one would be even more thrashy, which is kind of a funny thing — they're constantly churning out so many records in so many different veins that you wind up with a fairly loose attachment to any of them sounding particularly Gizzardy. Or maybe it's just the nature of thrash that once you blend a little of it into what you're doing, it starts feeling like you might as well thrash all the way; it's kind of an extremist genre!

At some point they should release a detailed guide to their working methods, like a productivity self-help book for rock musicians. At this point I'm just curious how they divide up their time.

Minimize chord progressions, tempo changes, syncopation, and vocal melodies seems to be part of it, at least for the straightforward rock LPs.

gonna guess no

― some men just want to watch the world Bern (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 5:06 PM (three years ago)

this is definitive

I wonder which ones I would buy? not all of them, for sure! they should just make them free, lol.

can't you just stream off Bandcamp? Or get Apple Music instead, which still has King Gizz albums?

I'd actually love to switch from Spotify to Apple, but ironically I'm the only one in my family without an iPhone, and they've complained that unlike Spotify, Apple makes them listen to podcasts on a separate app (which I guess is too onerous?) and also they would lose their playlists (?). So I/we would end up paying for both Spotify *and* Apple, which doesn't solve the ethical quandary of giving money to Spotify and just wastes money.

Bandcamp is def. a possibility. I've honestly never messed much with Bandcamp beyond using it to buy merch, I just assumed only some tracks were streamable to entice you to pay for the whole album. I guess not! I might end up throwing the band some cash for a couple of my favorite records and then dumping them into a folder I have for the handful of things I can't find on Spotify (iirc, Shriekback, Curve and a couple of Springsteen bootlegs).

Ha! Fun moment this morning --

Since my walkman's screen is broken, sometimes the "play" button gets toggled unbeknownst to me. And so, next time I put in my earphones, there's music already playing, but it's not the music that *had been playing* when I last set the walkman aside.

This is great because sometimes it's Side B of something I haven't heard in a while -- some album I loaded onto the walkman because I *wanted* to hear it, but there's a lot of Susumu Hirasawa on there and I'm powerless to resist Hirasawa at the minute, and so I never get around to all the other good stuff. In moments like this, I get to enjoy the disorientation and surprise and then proceed to bliss out.

So, this morning -- earphones in -- the fuck? I don't remember putting the Grateful Dead on here. Did I somehow toggle the "radio station" option again? But the radio feeds me Chinese-language news -- no damn way there's a Dead station deep in the outskirts of Guangzhou... but isn't this clearly the Grateful Dead...

And the moment of illumination: oh, it's just Flight b741. The outro of Antarctica <3

i get so mournful during the wolf howls in that song! i love to howl along.

all signs indicate that the time for me to finally get into the grateful dead fast approaches.

i've finally been clicking with the silver cord extended mixes. i had the wrong idea about them doing something "electronic", it's less a dance thing than it is related to early kraftwerk or cluster. realizing that helped me open up to it.

oh, another thing, the bass playing on flight b741 is a star character--melodic, dynamic, inventive. "sad pilot" is a good example (2:30).

I'm addicted to these epic 3-night live shows, this one just dropped

https://bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-field-of-vision-25

Jello Biafra as a guest on a DKs cover!

Was that here or somewhere else that I read his daughter (?) is a big fan?

he says KG are his fave band!

at this point who amongst us does not love King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

The joy in this thread made me dive in. Started with Petrodragonic and holy *shit* have I had fun. Love the live stuff and am just going to keep going in as the mood takes. Thanks again, ilm.

\m/ \m/

i have petrodragonic and silver cord on my running/gym playlist (taking a break from flight b741 and phantom island so i don't burn out on em) and noticed there are a lot of crossover lyrical references between the two.

i'm really loving the extended mixes of "theia" and "silver cord" (esp. the dnb last half of the latter). they both have some of my favorite melodies in gizz land. "theia" gets real stoner-y - the propulsion and the swirly synth = a good way to get lost in the moment.

the lyrics on petrodragonic, what i can catch of them at least, are pretty wild. a descent into the hell of climate apocalypse never sounded so righteous.

xp i think they had jello doing something (djing?) at field of vision! it makes sense that he'd be into them, they're kind of in the pipeline-exploder category of climate activism, at least when it comes to their lyrics.

i didn't catch a lot over those three days, but i did watch the "dedication" they had before the show started from a native american elder (cheyenne? laramie? can't remember, sorry!). he sang a song of resistance. it was awesome!

oh i kind of skimmed posts and didn't realize sleeve was talking about recordings of said festival! looking forward to listening to those.

yeah they rule <3

and yeah Jello talks abt his "weird" DJ set as well!

I would 100% listen to "Jello spins his weirdest shit"

42.

Le Risque (Live at Field of Vision '25) 05:19

omg this is outrageous!!!

my man <3

Heads up, not sure if this is related to pulling off of Spotify or something else coming up, but all of their albums are currently 'name your price' on Bandcamp. I threw some bucks their way to be able to have all those non-CD released albums in my collection.

rad, thanks!

man sometimes this band REALLY sounds like the Allman Brothers circa Fillmore East 1970

this is a good thing

ok ppl

from Consequence on FB:

After departing Spotify, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard made their entire catalog available on Bandcamp with a "name-your-own-price" option.
The move has proven massively successful, with the band currently occupying all 25 top spots on Bandcamp's best-selling albums chart.

my dudes!

!!

I bought Phantoms, Flight, Silver Cord, SF 2016, and Omnium

so yeah

Tortoise just snuck into #25 :)

they've got 33 of the top 35 though

I bought Made in Timeland, Omnium, Ice Death, Laminated Denim, Changes, PetroDragonic and Silver Cord. Basically the whole run of albums they didn't ever release on CD.

I'm getting KG and LW

still fucking heavy with flight b741. it just keeps giving. i love belting along to .. well, all of it, but lately "antarctica" - "TAKE ME AWAAAYYYYY i wanna feel the prospects on my face again!"

polygondwanaland: the sort of prog that's heavy on stilted rhythms in unusual time signatures that i'm not very fond of. it's strange that they come across so awkwardly here when they've made unusual time signatures sound very natural in the past

I've avoided this band because their name makes me retch and I feared it'd be some kinda dope smoking sniggering hippie thing but I thought I'd give this album a listen. I've listened to it three times now and... nah, not for me. Good musicians but Ozric Tentacles meets the Cardiacs is never going to appeal to me. I've heard they're quite eclectic so I might listen to another album or two though.

check out "The Silver Cord" or the new "Phantom Island" imho, I'm not as much a fan of the older stuff either

this is the release that hooked me fwiw:

https://bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bulgaria-25

xxpost Never heard those bands (that I think I only recognize from import UK mags!) but "Omnium Gatherum" imo remains the best place to start with Gizzard. It's all over the place, from metal to krautrock garage to ... other stuff, so if none of that clicks with you then, yeah, prolly not a good match.

^^ that one is also a good call, as it is basically an excellent odds & sods comp

i love em so i may be too close to offer reasonable suggestions but sometimes i think their most successful mode is metal. so if the phrase 'prog metal' does not send you running i'd suggest checking out 'petrodragonic apocalypse'. i like their melodies and songwriting quite a bit but i don't think "ozric tentacles meets the cardiacs" is anything i'd normally be interested in either. for me the appeal of the band came through the lyrics and the concepts, which is their heart imo and what gives a throughline to all their different styles.

I think that's key. They are not dilettantes or goofs, they are engaging with their ideas - musical and lyrical, silly and serious alike - in good faith.

polygwondwanaland is not particularly representative, it's the only album where they commit to that particular sort of heavily syncopated weird time signature prog

https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-san-francisco-16

i really recommend live in san francisco '16 as the best introduction, it covers nearly all the highlights from their early krauty psych rock period (mostly nonagon infinity & i'm in your mind fuzz) but the versions here are much better than the studio albums and it's still a major part of their sound

ice, death, planets, mushrooms & lava is my personal favourite, it's all jazzy, jammy psych epics

phantom island, their most recent, is a solid starting point too - it's 60s psych pop meets 70s roots rock which works better than you would expect

omnium gatherum covers a lot of ground but pretty much none of it is anywhere near their best imo except "the dripping tap" so i don't think it's the best introduction

cosign all of that. i will need to check out that san francisco set soon.

xpost tbf The Dripping Tap is a quarter of the album!

Was at the Royal Albert Hall show on Tuesday - amazing stuff. First set mostly from the new album, with the Covent Garden Sinfonia. RAH rules stipulate there had to be a 30-minute interval and that the house lights had to be up throughout, but the Gizz, sans orchestra, jammed inna-Live-Dead-stylee for 20+ minutes, then dove into an epic Gaia with long jam section in the middle. Second set included orchestra-aided The River, an absolutely monumental orchestra-enabled Crumbling Castle and a version of Dragon (again, w/orchestra) that was heavier than murder.

Awesome. Hope a video goes up somewhere. I posted on the other thread about their rave set last week, 5 of them doing epic rave jamming round a large modular synth set up on a desk, with the drummer at the back doing live rock drumming.

There's another thread? I wish I'd been able to make the rave sets - the YouTubes of them were insane.

The legendary Chicago official boot from a coupla years ago ends with them all around the synth rack as Cavs pounds away in the background, and it is so intense and thrilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zVah4ymbQo

there's a complete hq video of one of the earlier orchestra shows. it's probably the only one we're going to get because dealing with broadcast rights with the orchestras is more complicated & expensive

honestly i don't really rate the live synth jams much, they have their moments but seem to spend way too much time noodling around doing nothing, every song ends up going for 15 minutes but not in a good way

Yeah but the highs are insane!

There's another thread?

I guess map started it because this one is ostensibly about one album:

all woohoos all the time: the king gizzard and the lizard wizard thread

Thanks Ledge - will follow!