All Things King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

BoilerRhapsody said:
I see, I've never really played guitar before, but I have a lot of piano experience and I can definitely grasp that faster =/= harder or better. But in this case its faster and also cleaner and tighter which to me compounds the skill required to perform it, what I have no grasp of is how guitar fretboards work, or techniques, so I can't really visualize if compositionally this ITRN stuff is trickier than MOTU or Polygondwanaland for example. I guess I never thought that about FfF because that style of guitar playing isn't completely new to them, theres a good section of Poly like that right?

Maybe its not better or more difficult to a trained ear, but is there something about the guitar work of ITRN that sets it apart from the rest of the discography to you? I suppose maybe its just this genre that really exposes the guitar more and I've never had to give it so much attention, especially as they've never been big on solos.
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oh for sure, it's definitely impressive what they do and that style certainly takes practice but they're also not playing that fast or that complicated compared to many other metal bands. that style is more about the strumming hand and getting good at being clean at that fast "chugga, chugga" sound good by quickly alternating playing and palm muting.

they've definitely been doing some pretty technically impressive stuff for a long time, especially with odd time signatures. and while Rats' Nest may not ultimately be more technical than Polygondwanalad or MotU it's definitely flashier.
 
Tillman said:
damn, did you at least get the blue? my disc 1 has a nasty scratch on it that they said they would replace but haven't got the shipping on the replacement yet.

in other news I think I prefer Rat's Nest to Fishies, which is kind of surprising me.
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As an album, I definitely prefer Infest The Rat’s Nest. But I like the songs on Fishies better. The whole transition to synthetic robotic music doesn’t work as well for me like it does some others. To me it feels like the last two songs are a little out of place, although I dig them.

I want a whole album of Doom Gizz.
 
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