King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

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

Is it?

gonna guess yes

Infest The Rats' Nest is kind of a wild record. I think I like them in metal mode more than some. This pretty much sounds like old school Metallica meets Sleep.

one of the better metal albums of 2019 so far imo

you could say "it's just kind of a gloss of common metal ideas" to which i would say so is like 80% of metal nowadays

I saw them play in Austin last night, pretty good show. Huge, extremely hyped up crowd. The new songs went over really well, but there was a little too much time spent on the slow jazzy numbers, letting all the band members sing songs, and some endless boogie beats. Needed a bit more of the fast-paced material.

Ooh, I'm liking K.G. so far. A return to the microtonal shit.

Very fun yes, and some enjoyable curveballs as well

K.G. is indeed really good.

The Live In SF LP is great as well

That's next on my list to spin, actually.

First half is all Nonagon all the time, and it ends with a fantastic Head On-Pill that also goes Nonagon when yr least expecting it

What's KG? I loved microtonal banana but never really got this band beyond that.

It's the name of their latest album

it has like a dance track which feels ~weird~, but what, am i gonna tell THIS band how to genre?

Yeah, “Intrasport”, the weird disco track stands out a little, but it segues so nicely into the next song that I can’t hate it.

KG is very Microtonal, it's great

This rules.

LW out Friday, lol

i was into this band for a bit but haven't kept up with them at all, and now i see them being used on social media (even tiktok) as shorthand for annoying arcane prog rock dorks in the same way as tool, so i guess they've hit the big time

they're still great, love both kg & lw - strong albums both!

with the massive volume of albums they've put out, there are absolutely some duds, but there are so many good ones as well. If LW continues with the direction of KG, them I'm totally down.

Not a massive expert on them but they always strike me as great fun - certainly moreso than Tool!

Yeah, there's nothing po-faced abt Gizz, they do not take themselves seriously like that at all.

LW is literally the other half of KG, more excursions on the seas of microtonality. TBH i prefer KGLW to the Flying Microtonal Banana LP that started it all off.

https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/l-w

yet another record!

A great one, too

I really loved these guys for a minute and then a bunch of stuff happened in my life and I kind of lost track, probably missed 9 albums

I always enjoy them when they're playing, but I can't really be doing with the sheer amount of listening it must take to be a true fan.

Alice bought one of their albums on RSD

I forget which one: I'd look through their discogs list, but I really don't have that kind of spare time...

Forthcoming album Butterfly 3000 is very fun, a new age synth pop record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMldn7hFZo pretty cool 18 min jam

is fake vinyl lead-in groove noise the sonic equivalent of fake ring wear on the album cover art?

Saw them live doing a garage rock set recently. Up there as one of my funnest gig experiences and the first time I realised crowd surfing can actually be not terrible (obviously only to a degree, don't crucify me). I drunkenly also started a movement which resulted in 50% of all males at the front taking their shirts off and it was all around an absolutely great time.

All that said, don't have time for their albums. They really are best as a live band

That’s a shame. I love Butterfly 3000

Listened to Mind Fuzz and Butterly 3000 after avoiding them for years due to the name. Goddamit, I'm kind of hooked. The disco-y stuff reminds me of later Tame Impala, but better?

Catching Smoke off the latter is a fun ride.

Of their recent ones, I really enjoyed KG, LW, and Infest The Rats' Nest

I will check those out. They have a million albums!

Rat's Nest is just a fantastic thrash album. The forthcoming LP is brilliant as well, a good place for the neophyte to begin as it draws on lots of different styles, etc, rather than pursuing a single concept.

I got in pretty early, despite the stupid name, with I'm in Your Mind Fuzz. It was a decent garage rock record, but it was hearing the range reflected on Quarters (four 10 minute 10 second psych rock jams) and Paper Mache Dream Balloon (all acoustic instruments, flutes, etc) that convinced me to pay attention. Not every album is great, but they've had far more hits than misses.

I always liked their name. A lizard wizard and a king of digestion, the latter now sounds as fantastic to me as the former

I had a garage-brew milkshake stout named after them, long before I checked out their music and it was amazing the end.

As much as I love Infest The Rats' Nest, I think it would have been improved if the lyrics were unintelligible.

Ha the lyrics having an intelligible uh, spirit (?) makes me like it more somehow.

A pal was at their usa debut at austin psychfest back when, came away awed (and shared head on to me) and i guess the show recording has been released. I should get that🤔.

these guys are making bob pollard look lazy

wow. didn't realize they had another one out today. so difficult to keep up with this band but I dig a lot of it

me neither but everything they do is a bit silly so it's not exactly out of character. I think this is what's so endearing about them, for example I'm not really a metal guy but I dug Petrodragonic Apocalypse because it wasn't afraid to be dumb in a real fun way. I mean "Gila Monster" is one of the few metal tracks I've heard that really made me laugh.

I know better than to get hung up on just one particular album from these guys and this made for a fun listen (esp the extended version), but I don't know, this whole album and rollout feels to me like they are leaning way too hard into pleasing the reddit fanbase or something. It just seems too intentionally meme ready and winking, or something. I dunno, it's hard to put into words how I'm feeling about it, but I guess this is where I think the silliness outstrips the quality of the music and I've never really felt that way before.

I enjoyed the euro techno jock jam esp because i was rollerskiing. at least they good at what they do.

found a copy of Polygondwanaland today and wow this is just up my alley. real progressive and kind of electrofunky. genuinely nuts that this is was one of FIVE albums they did that year. with most modern prog acts you're lucky if you get an album like this every 4 years.