Pitchfork reviews King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s “Nonagon Infinity”
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Besides being a killer garage rock album, Nonagon Infinity is constructed as an infinite loop, meaning its final notes connect perfectly with the album’s opening.
Besides being a killer garage rock album, Nonagon Infinity is constructed as an infinite loop, meaning its final notes connect perfectly with the album’s opening.
Those who thought universal good vibes had shunned Austin in the wake of Levitation’s cancellation on Thursday stood corrected Sunday night.
Le groupe de rock garage australien, démentiel sur scène, produit des disques expérimentalo-psyché enthousiasmants à la vitesse de l’éclair.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s a name you won’t soon forget, but also a name that maybe has you squinting your eyes in skepticism, and rightfully so: What could a band with a name like that sound like?
The prolific Australian psychedelic pop combo King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard aren’t the kind of band prone to repeating themselves. Over the course of their short career, they’ve established themselves as voracious sonic explorers who aren’t afraid to take chances and never met a gimmick they didn’t like.
This is one big trip. The energetic psych garage heroes of today are at their playful peak. They’re unstoppable, literally: their new record never ends, songs seamlessly blend into each other.
… j’arrive devant une nouvelle grande porte où est encore inscrit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, j’ai l’impression de déjà connaître cette porte ; j’enclenche quand même et pousse la porte…
Continuant sur leur rythme effréné d’un disque tous les six mois depuis leurs débuts il y cinq ans, les Australiens de King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard livrent leur huitième album construit sur le concept de répétition infinie.
MELBOURNE – Tra pochi giorni, il 29 aprile, verrà dato alle stampe, tramite Heavenly, “Nonagon Infinity”, l’ottavo album (e quarto degli ultimi diciotto mesi, ndr) del progetto King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard.
Album de la semaine: “Nonagon Infinity” de King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Les sept sorciers du psychédélisme King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard assoient un peu plus leur fessier sur le psych game mondial
Aux vues de la productivité de King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, on aurait presque trouvé le temps long depuis ‘Quarters‘ sorti en mai de l’année dernière.
On avait déjà signalé le précédent single et l’arrivée prochaine (le 29 avril) de leur nouvel album chez Heavenly Recordings / PIAS mais ce nouveau morceau livré il y a quelques jours en amuse-bouche du dit Nonagon Infinty (ah ce titre, ce nom de groupe), nous a incité à en remettre une couche.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, les hyperactifs présentent un nouveau single « People Vultures » tiré de l’album « Nonagon Infinity » qui sortira le 29 avril.
On April 29, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard—a seven member rock set out of Melbourne—will deliver an ambitious project: Nonagon Infinity, an album that loops seamlessly, with the final note leading right back into the very first.
I’ve never been to Australia, but I have seen every Mad Max movie multiple times, which means I find it entirely plausible that the country could support at least one color-coded garage-rock druid-cult.
From Nonagon Infinity, Melbourne psych rock outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s follow-up to last year’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (review), out April 29 via Flightless.
Fans of genre bending Australian garage-psych rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard should rejoice over the news that the seven-man sound machine is releasing a brand new LP entitled Nonagon Infinity on April 29, available for pre-order here.
No matter how many albums it takes, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are going to make the world stand up and listen.
If you want to understand how fluid the genre signifier “psych” can be, consider what a vast spectrum of sounds King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored throughout their discography.
After dabbling Brubeck-y jazz and gentle acoustics, Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back in hyperactive psych mode on new album Nonagon Infinity, which will be out via ATO on April 29.
Aussie music machine King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have revealed full details of yet another studio album. Following the release of both Quarters and Paper Mache Dream Balloon in 2015, the septet will now follow them up with the April-bound Nonagon Infinity.
Si je découvre King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard avec cet album, ce collectif australien sort en fait son 7ème opus en 3 ans!
Let’s all just take a moment to step back and reflect on what’s been happening in realm of Australian music over the past decade, particularly across the southern coast. To say that the once arid musical wasteland from whence INXS, AC/DC and a slew of other acronymic cock-rockers emerged in the pre-Internet age has undergone something of a renaissance would be an understatement.
Every once in a blue moon, there comes along a band that will raise the musical bar and work standard of how a unit should operate. A rare breed that will continuously challenge what will be expected of them, but in turn keep producing records of such substantial merit that they do not get tiresome, predictable, or cliche.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Now say it again with an Australian accent. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Too funny right? This is probably one of my favourite bands, yet such a random one.
With their gonzo band name and mind-bending music released at a rate of a couple of albums a year, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are the latest Australian psychedelic group making an impact.
After the vicious, noisy and quite brilliant assault of support band YAK is over, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arrive to what sounds like ghost train music.
Nous ne savons pas trop ce que prennent ces sept australiens, ou tout simplement s’ils prennent quelque chose.
Awesomely named Aussie psych-rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard channels elements of the vintage Smiley Smile, Hurdy Gurdy Man, and The Village Green Preservation Society LPs by the Beach Boys, Donovan, and The Kinks, respectively, for their latest endeavor.