All Things King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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JonnyH
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What’s a reddit?
Enoch
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Red ditz, who knows how they got red but it had to do with them being ditzes
Tillman
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waiting for my vinyl to arrive for my first listen, but glad to hear it's good!
Dark Star Boogie
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It’s still great.
Tillman
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anyone here based on Melbourne want to farm some organs?
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displayname
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I could move by then.
Tillman
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ATO has 100 copies of the new Stonefield on red
https://atorecords.shop.musictoday.com/product/ATLP296/title-stonefield-bent-red-vinyl?cp=null
they also have 100 of the new white Flightless Pipe-Eye, which I got the blue Flightless in yesterday and listened to and really enjoyed.
https://atorecords.shop.musictoday....eoutside-hot-jam-donut-limitededition?cp=null
https://atorecords.shop.musictoday.com/product/ATLP296/title-stonefield-bent-red-vinyl?cp=null
they also have 100 of the new white Flightless Pipe-Eye, which I got the blue Flightless in yesterday and listened to and really enjoyed.
https://atorecords.shop.musictoday....eoutside-hot-jam-donut-limitededition?cp=null
displayname
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displayname
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I also noticed they pulled a TSwift/Gambino signature social media move - deleted all past posts.
BoilerRhapsody
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All the hype so far has been pretty mainstream styled and new to them: professionally directed music videos, posters all over Melbourne, this mysterious gathering tomorrow, a headline Australian tour and now this. Makes it all feel more significant.
BoilerRhapsody
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Things are looking pretty wild at the descent:
Tillman
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https://www.smh.com.au/entertainmen...WCam-874saLnknrYcLfBlvgVkt9TMcJHEvBofRthHf3u4
the obvious highlight of the article is that the new album, "Infest the Rats’ Nest" is to be released on August 16th!!!!
here's the whole thing:
Melbourne's prolific King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard show their metal
Early in 2016 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arrived in London the daybefore their European tour started. The Melbourne group decided to venture out that night to catch compatriots Tame Impala at the city’s historic Alexandra Palace. When the seven members of the genre-shredding guitar band walked into the ornate venue, which holds more than 10,000 people, they were stunned by its size.
“I remember thinking to myself,” says guitarist Joey Walker, “Thank God we’re never going to have to play here, because it’s just too big.”
Come October, when King Gizzard’s latest run of European dates kicks off, they’ll be making their Alexandra Palace debut. Aside from the occasional “palpitations” on Walker’s part, and some doubts about how their usual visual accompaniment of a high-powered projector and a large white cloth will fare, that unexpected progression from awestruck audience member to happy headliner is typical of a group that’s carved their own path with a cheerful lack of conceit.
Tagged as psychedelic rock revivalists when they first appeared, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard haven’t so much outlasted expectations as outworked them. An at times relentless international touring schedule and an eclectic mix of 14 studio albums over the past seven years had given them an international career forged in alternative rock circles but now venturing into cult status. They’re grateful, but far from dead.
“It’s a luxury for us that people don’t know what we’re doing. It used to piss people off, the same as with us changing genres, but now we’re lucky because that’s come to define us,” Walker says. “We’re known for being unpredictable and that’s a huge freedom for us.”
“It’s crazily flattering to be in the lucky position we are,” adds vocalist Stu Mackenzie. “We worked really hard, but we also had a lot of things go our way.”
Walker and Mackenzie are waiting for coffees in a Brunswick East bakery, just around the corner from Flightless Records, the band’s independent label which has filled an empty floor of a former shopfront and factory with a rehearsal room, recording facilities and control booth, label offices, and a mail-order operation that ships out several crates every weekday.
Because of their initial freak flag imagery and the overload of releases, there’s a perception – aided by their off the cuff name – that King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are music making dilettantes, recording and releasing new music at will. But the reality is that Mackenzie, Walker, co-vocalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith, guitarist Cook Craig, bassist Lucas Skinner and percussionists Eric Moore and Michael Cavanagh adhere to self-generated deadlines with all seven band members spending five days a week at the Flightless facility working collectively or individually.
“We have a balance that’s formed naturally. Even if we’re just rehearsing or doing planning we facilitate an open dialogue,” Walker says. “Sometimes we end up in a room together and all we do is talk, but that’s hugely beneficial. When you try to enforce expectations that’s actually detrimental. If you don’t want to rehearse, then you’re done.”
This arrangement is spiked by Mackenzie’s desire to make music. The band’s chief songwriter has a mercurial energy and an impish charm. He has “rock is dead” tattooed in small letters on his right arm, but readily concedes it’s there as a joke. He’s interested in other people and reversing any form of band status quo: recently Mackenzie realised that everyone had gravitated towards a role in King Gizzard – Moore is the band’s manager, for example – so he started challenging everyone to change up their routines or creative practices.
“At the same time, I don’t spend my whole day playing music. I spend an hour or two each day playing music, the rest is organising stuff or taking care of something else,” Mackenzie says. “We’ve never lived in the studio because that’s too hard. You actually don’t get that much done because you end up dwelling on everything.”
King Gizzard released, with great exertion, five studio albums in 2017, then in 2018 played more than 100 shows and recorded their April 2019 album, Fishing for Fishies. But that album’s existential 12-bar boogie and 1970s pop inflections is already – and typically – about to be supplanted. Announced today, and released on Friday, August 16 as the band finish their forthcoming Australian tour, Infest the Rats’ Nest once again reconfigures their parameters.
This is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard embracing thrash metal’s meticulous mayhem. It’s an album of furious double-kick drumming, splintered guitar riffs, and guttural vocals, inspired in part by Mackenzie and Walker being teenage metal fans who looked back to the likes of Megadeth and Slayer for their headbanging satisfaction and first guitar lessons.
“We couldn’t have made this record until this year,” Mackenzie says. “We’ve had this progression of records influenced by heavy metal, but they’ve never been heavy metal. It’s been this energy we’ve never learnt how to play, because we learnt to play from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.”
For virtually any other successful band such an abrupt left turn would be a source of puzzlement and possible hand-wringing, but for King Gizzard it’s simply the latest gambit in a career founded on refusing to define themselves. And whatever the response, chances are there’ll be a new album to once more change the conversation within the next 12 months, if not sooner.
“I want to make sure that I don’t worry too much about making a bad record. I could rank all our albums in my mind, but I still like all of them,” Mackenzie says. “I just want to feel that if we put out something bad or have a lack of inspiration it will be fine, because understanding that frees your mind.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard play the Forum Theatre, Melbourne on June 27 and 28; and the Roundhouse, UNSW, on July 5 and 6.
the obvious highlight of the article is that the new album, "Infest the Rats’ Nest" is to be released on August 16th!!!!
here's the whole thing:
Melbourne's prolific King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard show their metal
Early in 2016 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arrived in London the daybefore their European tour started. The Melbourne group decided to venture out that night to catch compatriots Tame Impala at the city’s historic Alexandra Palace. When the seven members of the genre-shredding guitar band walked into the ornate venue, which holds more than 10,000 people, they were stunned by its size.
“I remember thinking to myself,” says guitarist Joey Walker, “Thank God we’re never going to have to play here, because it’s just too big.”
Come October, when King Gizzard’s latest run of European dates kicks off, they’ll be making their Alexandra Palace debut. Aside from the occasional “palpitations” on Walker’s part, and some doubts about how their usual visual accompaniment of a high-powered projector and a large white cloth will fare, that unexpected progression from awestruck audience member to happy headliner is typical of a group that’s carved their own path with a cheerful lack of conceit.
Tagged as psychedelic rock revivalists when they first appeared, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard haven’t so much outlasted expectations as outworked them. An at times relentless international touring schedule and an eclectic mix of 14 studio albums over the past seven years had given them an international career forged in alternative rock circles but now venturing into cult status. They’re grateful, but far from dead.
“It’s a luxury for us that people don’t know what we’re doing. It used to piss people off, the same as with us changing genres, but now we’re lucky because that’s come to define us,” Walker says. “We’re known for being unpredictable and that’s a huge freedom for us.”
“It’s crazily flattering to be in the lucky position we are,” adds vocalist Stu Mackenzie. “We worked really hard, but we also had a lot of things go our way.”
Walker and Mackenzie are waiting for coffees in a Brunswick East bakery, just around the corner from Flightless Records, the band’s independent label which has filled an empty floor of a former shopfront and factory with a rehearsal room, recording facilities and control booth, label offices, and a mail-order operation that ships out several crates every weekday.
Because of their initial freak flag imagery and the overload of releases, there’s a perception – aided by their off the cuff name – that King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are music making dilettantes, recording and releasing new music at will. But the reality is that Mackenzie, Walker, co-vocalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith, guitarist Cook Craig, bassist Lucas Skinner and percussionists Eric Moore and Michael Cavanagh adhere to self-generated deadlines with all seven band members spending five days a week at the Flightless facility working collectively or individually.
“We have a balance that’s formed naturally. Even if we’re just rehearsing or doing planning we facilitate an open dialogue,” Walker says. “Sometimes we end up in a room together and all we do is talk, but that’s hugely beneficial. When you try to enforce expectations that’s actually detrimental. If you don’t want to rehearse, then you’re done.”
This arrangement is spiked by Mackenzie’s desire to make music. The band’s chief songwriter has a mercurial energy and an impish charm. He has “rock is dead” tattooed in small letters on his right arm, but readily concedes it’s there as a joke. He’s interested in other people and reversing any form of band status quo: recently Mackenzie realised that everyone had gravitated towards a role in King Gizzard – Moore is the band’s manager, for example – so he started challenging everyone to change up their routines or creative practices.
“At the same time, I don’t spend my whole day playing music. I spend an hour or two each day playing music, the rest is organising stuff or taking care of something else,” Mackenzie says. “We’ve never lived in the studio because that’s too hard. You actually don’t get that much done because you end up dwelling on everything.”
King Gizzard released, with great exertion, five studio albums in 2017, then in 2018 played more than 100 shows and recorded their April 2019 album, Fishing for Fishies. But that album’s existential 12-bar boogie and 1970s pop inflections is already – and typically – about to be supplanted. Announced today, and released on Friday, August 16 as the band finish their forthcoming Australian tour, Infest the Rats’ Nest once again reconfigures their parameters.
This is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard embracing thrash metal’s meticulous mayhem. It’s an album of furious double-kick drumming, splintered guitar riffs, and guttural vocals, inspired in part by Mackenzie and Walker being teenage metal fans who looked back to the likes of Megadeth and Slayer for their headbanging satisfaction and first guitar lessons.
“We couldn’t have made this record until this year,” Mackenzie says. “We’ve had this progression of records influenced by heavy metal, but they’ve never been heavy metal. It’s been this energy we’ve never learnt how to play, because we learnt to play from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.”
For virtually any other successful band such an abrupt left turn would be a source of puzzlement and possible hand-wringing, but for King Gizzard it’s simply the latest gambit in a career founded on refusing to define themselves. And whatever the response, chances are there’ll be a new album to once more change the conversation within the next 12 months, if not sooner.
“I want to make sure that I don’t worry too much about making a bad record. I could rank all our albums in my mind, but I still like all of them,” Mackenzie says. “I just want to feel that if we put out something bad or have a lack of inspiration it will be fine, because understanding that frees your mind.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard play the Forum Theatre, Melbourne on June 27 and 28; and the Roundhouse, UNSW, on July 5 and 6.
Enaz Fox
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About a week exactly before I see them. Very curious as to how the setlist is going to shape up.
Tillman
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am I crazy in thinking that Newbury Comics already did "exclusives" of Quarters and Mind Fuzz?
www.newburycomics.com
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I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Exclusive LP
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. 4 clicks and we’re off - galloping through realms on a phase-shifted, hydra-headed, many armed and muscular monster. This Australian beast of a band with a bear of a name and a thick herd of band members delivers many things to us on this warped...
www.newburycomics.com
Quarters! Exclusive LP
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Count on this group of Australian weirdos to come up with an idea like this - a 12” of four songs, each 10 minutes and 10 seconds long, accompanied by an insane painting of four different worlds melding together. Who are we to refuse them? This...
www.newburycomics.com
zdkaiser
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This is Newburys 2nd set of exclusives for these titles in last several months. Cashing in!am I crazy in thinking that Newbury Comics already did "exclusives" of Quarters and Mind Fuzz?
I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Exclusive LP
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. 4 clicks and we’re off - galloping through realms on a phase-shifted, hydra-headed, many armed and muscular monster. This Australian beast of a band with a bear of a name and a thick herd of band members delivers many things to us on this warped...
Quarters! Exclusive LP
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Count on this group of Australian weirdos to come up with an idea like this - a 12” of four songs, each 10 minutes and 10 seconds long, accompanied by an insane painting of four different worlds melding together. Who are we to refuse them? This...
Tillman
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I thought so. though Castle Face put out 4 variants of "I'm In Your Mind Fuzz" (not including black) and 5 variants of "Quarters" (not including black), so Newbury is really behind on these.
BoilerRhapsody
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They've officially announced it now too:
Tillman
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nice! so pre-order is this upcoming Monday for us in the US, right? (you'd think by now I'd have this figured out)