King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

A wildly eclectic, unique sound: CHECK
A genre impossible to define, utilizing influences from math-rock, psychedelia and even surf-rock (!): CHECK
A string of different yet almost-all-concept albums: CHECK
Irregular time signatures: literally almost no songs in 4/4
A ProgArchives page: NON-EXIST-ENT???

Their most recent album is as PROG as it can be, a three-part sci-fi story in 20 chapters with loads of mellotron thrown in. Give these Aussies some love! <333

Edited by Prog-jester - July 30 2017 at 07:47

Never heard of them until now.  Thanks for posting, Prog-Jester.  I totally enjoyed both of those clips.

Just edited my previous post to avoid any sort of conflict (I certainly wasn't looking for one).

I don't really think any other bluesy-garage band got such a distinct recognizable sound or plays in 7/8 and 5/4 all the time or releases sci-fi-concept albums, but what do I know. Not trying to dive into this old "I love them hence they're prog" routine, just really shocked PA users ignore them (judging from this topic).

Edited by Prog-jester - July 31 2017 at 17:35

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Something new for the evidence locker:

Maaaaaaaaaaaaadly exciting, thx guys 

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