Off the back of a raucous Sydney show this week that we named perhaps the best show of 2016, Canadian Mac Demarco and a bunch of his ragtag mates have planned a mammoth Perth show in lieu of the cancelled Southbound Festival, due to WA’s raging bushfires.
2015 was another big year over here at the Horseshack. Across the seven choice studios, across the world, that we invite the best musicians in the world to, we recorded and posted just under 1000 new sessions. We are happy to present the 100 sessions that stood out most from the crowd, for whatever reason.
Today’s Song of the Day is “Bone” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Their album, Paper Mache Dream Balloon, is out now.
This garage-psych band from the land down under sure does freak me out. Expecting more of the ragingly unkempt sonic shout-outs that shone like a veritable watermark on some of their earlier work (notably 2014’s Oddments and this year’s Quarters!) I was surprised by what amounts to self-restraint on their seventh full length effort, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon.
As Melbourne ensemble takes a breather with experimental folky album, it readies its most ambitious release to date.
Depuis son arrivée fracassante sur nos ondes avec le maelström psychédélique de “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz”, la bande de freaks australienne de King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard est dans l’œil du cyclone.
“King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard released their new album Paper Mâché Dream Balloon last week and if you haven’t heard it yet it’s streaming through the service of your choice (we’ve got Spotify below). The record eschews their crazed psych-garage in favor of acoustic instruments, jazzy arrangements and more than a little flute…”
“It should be no surprise that Paper Mâché Dream Balloon moves into a different direction on their ATO Records debut which finds the group lightening the mood with shorter and bouncier songs that believe it or not, have a catchy flute as its driving instrument. I know it sounds odd but that is KGATLW and even though fans may have an initial hard time swallowing it (like I did), I encourage that Paper Mâché Dream Balloon be given its proper spin because all of the weirdness and groove you enjoy from KGATLW is in here…”
“Dream Balloon doesn’t lose the big, loping, surf-Kraut grooves, and the squad channels a more restrained Canned Heat on the album’s longest track, the four-and-a-half minute “Bitter Boogie.” Finding the unknown halfway point between Woods and Thee Oh Sees, everything is glistening and golden across the lands of the fair and just King Gizzard…”
“Breaking from the album’s general tone, “Trapdoor” is reminiscent of the nervous tension of They Might Be Giants, and they echo Canned Heat’s “On the Road Again” on “The Bitter Boogie,” with Ambrose Kenny Smith providing bluesy harmonica. But if the lyrics occasionally suggest a darker side below a giddy blast of sunshine, the irresistible sound of unison flute and guitar on “Time = Fate” will redirect your focus toward the light…”
“he decision to record without the use of any electric instruments gives PMDB a playful touch, even with all of the monsters lurking beneath its bed. There’s a distinct flavour of the Monkees, Beatles, Nuggets, and other 60s psych mainstays (The Byrds, Love et al.). In almost the same vein as the cheeky title of “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds”, KG&TLW are able to take the gentle melodies and use them as a first layer for much rougher psychic state on top. Album opener “Sense” contains an absolutely delicious flute riff, and in a style comparable to smooth-jazz…”
” Marlon Williams puts his choir boy-meets-punk rocker touch on country music, King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard brings us back to the sunny ’60s and Savages forcefully reminds us that love is the answer…”
“Melbourne-based King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard started in 2010 and has slowly but surely evolved from garage band and into psychedelia, krautrock, and experimentalism. With their latest effort Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, due on November 13 via ATO Records, the expands that blueprint further. Their latest track “Trapdoor” is a funky one, using a syncopated groove with punctuation from flute riffs, echo-heavy violin, and lots of of shaker. Stream the track for the first time below…
“Prolific Australian psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released the raucous Quarters on Castle Face back in May and will release a second 2015 album, the gentler Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, on ATO this November, and they just wrapped up a tour supporting all of it. The tour concluded in NYC last night (9/16) at Music Hall of Williamsburg with the Burger-signed Michael Rault and the Captured Tracks-signed EZTV…”
“King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon
Yes, it’s the sort of band name and song title that gets you lacing up your sturdiest hippy-kicking boots..”
“Psychedelic rock is a pretty broad category, and over the course of six albums and two EPs, Aussie space cadets King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored various corners of that sonic universe…”
“”FYF always features buzz-worthy breakout candidates, such as FKA Twigs and Tobias Jesso Jr. And there are acts we’re not entirely familiar with but, based on their names alone, we’d want to check out: Horse Meat Disco? King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard? Count us in!..”
“Winner of the just-now-created “Best Band Name Ever” award, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard start Sunday off right with some psychedelic tunes…”
“Melbourne’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have established themselves as one of the most charismatic outfits on the live circuit. Not to mention one of the most prolific when it comes to recording too…”
And then the pros took the stage. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards pulled the full crowd, and Fowlers was packed. Their music is thrashy and wild, while still holding tight to a clean sound.
Melbourne garage rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have both found themselves slated into two US music festivals this upcoming September: Life is Beautiful Music and Art Festival & Hopscotch Music Festival
It’s been 182 days between King Gizzard albums – but they’ve sated our appetite with four more curious tracks, each exactly 10 minutes and 10 seconds long.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard continue their celebratory week of announcements with the revelation of details for the Brisbane iteration of the band’s multi-stage event GIZZFEST following Sydney’s turn yesterday.
Tireless collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have raised the stakes yet again, announcing a ridiculous roster for their inaugural Gizzfest, which takes over The Corner for one arvo and three nights this May.
It’s the opening track on the band’s new record, Quarters, set to release from Heavenly Recordings on the 25th of May.
The new album, which is due out on Friday, 1 May, through Flightless/Remote Records, is already shaping up to be rather an epic-sounding progress, with the band revealing that the album will contain only four tracks — but that each will clock in with a running time of 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
The single edit of ‘God Is in the Rhythm’ clocks in under four minutes but the full 10 minute album version will make up a quarter of the record.
With the release of their fifth record, I’m on Your Mind Fuzz the psychedelic garage waves of Melbourne, Australia’s with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard continue to reach new ears.
