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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard isn’t conscionable a band. It’s a shape-shifting beast that devours genres for meal and spits retired sounds you didn’t adjacent cognize you needed.
Psychedelic rock, thrash metal, jazz, electronica, prog, folk, synth-pop and more; thing is ineffable and everything is up for grabs for this Melbourne-based sextet. We’re talking 26 workplace albums and counting, 39 unrecorded recordings, stacks of singles and capable euphony videos to support you glued to your surface for days. And it’s each been done implicit the people of conscionable 14 years.
The latest record, Flight b741, was released successful August close successful the mediate of a 44-date satellite tour. Its dependable is heavy influenced by no-frills Southern stone n’ rotation bands from the precocious ’60s and aboriginal ’70s—pedal steel, harmonicas, bluesy twang and all.
“We had a regularisation for this album—if it took longer than 2 hours to beryllium satisfied with a instrumentality for a opus past the opus was excessively analyzable for this project,” says bassist Lucas Harwood. “While the ideas are caller and flowing … idiosyncratic would bring successful ideas to the table, constitute the chords down and we would each larn it connected the spot and spell for it.”
The archetypal tracking sessions for the medium lasted 2 weeks earlier the set separated to enactment connected idiosyncratic parts oregon successful smaller groups earlier regrouping for the over-dubbing process, which took a fewer months to complete. Given the holistic, collaborative quality of the band, anyone has the quality to afloat transportation a opus idea. The rubric way was Harwood’s clip to shine, arsenic helium took the pb connected the song’s composition, soft and vocals.
“It was a large happening for maine … I don’t constitute arsenic galore songs arsenic the different guys and I consciousness the things I constitute don’t usually acceptable successful the Gizzard canon, but I had this 1 that conscionable felt right,” helium says.
Harwood, who besides plays successful the psych-pop stone set Heavy Moss, calls backmost to his puerility and his aboriginal vulnerability to people music, which undoubtedly gave him the cleanable backing to bring “Flight b741” to life. He nods to Elton John erstwhile it comes to the song’s soft style, and says that his bandmates gave him a helping manus with wrapping up the arrangements.
“It was the cleanable situation for maine wherever I had this idea, it’s not afloat formed and erstwhile I brought it to the array with the guys, everyone conscionable collaborates,” helium explains. “Which is truly chill due to the fact that it astir apt inactive wouldn’t beryllium a finished song.”
The listener is met with a fuzzy opening riff, a wailing harmonica and a chorus of vocals. And though getting connected the mic was a spot of a learning curve for Harwood, his code is affluent and fits perfectly with his bandmates. The opus encapsulates the feeling of a play roadworthy travel with your buds.
Just arsenic the particulate began to settle, King Gizzard kicked it up again. Only 2 months aft releasing Flight b741, they’re already cooking up different record—and, of course, exploring different genre. Their latest teaser, the melodic and orchestral azygous “Phantom Island,” offers a sensation of what’s to come. And they’re acceptable to instrumentality this dependable connected a peculiar nine-show tally backed by a 28-piece orchestra adjacent summer.
But earlier embarking connected that orchestral escapade, they’re finishing up their existent satellite tour, with a halt successful Vegas connected November 9—a acquainted metropolis for King Gizzard.
“I don’t mean this negatively astatine all: It is simply a immense novelty,” says Harwood. “It’s truly brainsick and amusive and we’re usually conscionable playing immoderate blackjack aft the show. I reckon the past clip we did it, we took implicit a full array too.”
KING GIZZARD &THE LIZARD WIZARD November 8, 8 p.m., $39+. PH Live, ticketmaster.com.
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