King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Listening right now to the latest on Bandcamp (which BTW one can download for free)
Don't like the vocals at all but the arrangements and specially the dynamics are  strong

Polygondwanaland is out now, available as a completely free download. Definitely their proggiest album to date, and (based on my first listen) arguably one of their best. Really exciting stuff.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaadly exciting, thx guys 

(a daughter had already given me a hint about them - she saw them live last summer and was blown away)

Something new for the evidence locker:

Meltdowner wrote: ^ In which sub-genre would you put them? I heard their latest the other day and it just confused me even more (and who knows where they'll go next?).

I'll be honest, this is more or less why I gave up on PA. The idea of categorising an artist (whose career may span decades and dozens of albums) into a single sub-category is needlessly restrictive. The end result is often stifled discussion and, occasionally, downright misinformation.

King Gizz are a classic case in point. There is no doubt to my mind that they are a progressive rock band. They are doing inventive, eclectic, complex things with rock music. That's prog.

When you get into the nitty gritty you can find touches of inspiration from all over the prog/psych landscape of the last fifty years. Everything from early psych-pop to krautrock, heavy metal to Canterbury. There is no one PA pigeonhole that feels like a good fit for them, so the chances are they will end up being batted about between genre teams for months, maybe years to come, by which point they will have probably released another 10 albums, given the rate they work at!

So yeah, within the way PA operates I don't have a good answer I'm afraid. I just feel it's a great shame that users of this site may be missing out on one of the most exciting and prolific progressive bands of recent years because no one can agree on which arbitrary sub-category they ought to be filed under.

Ey oop. I'm dusting off my account briefly to publicly declare my love of this band and my utter bafflement that they've yet to make it past the PA gatekeepers. Has anyone here heard their latest album Sketches of Brunswick East yet? Owes more than a little debt to early Soft Machine, IMO.

Just got into these guys a few months back (after hearing about them for the last two years) and picked up their last four albums. Really good stuff. And they love playing in 7/8.

yes, finally!

Personal Top-3:
1. Nonagon
2. Banana
3. MoU

Needa re-listen all the previous ones, can't remember being too keen on them, hearing the band at first back in 2014

Damn...just listened to Murder Of The Universe and it blew me right through the livingroom. Such a great album and perhaps even more so when you count in the fact that the banana album got released earlier in the year. Not quite Buckethead territory, thank ford, but with much better results.