King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard "Polygondwanaland"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Psychedelic
Label: various
Format: CD, vinyl, digital, cassette
Release date: November 16, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Crumbling Castle (10:44)
2. Polygondwanaland (3:32)
3. The Castle In The Air (2:47)
4. Desert Dunes Welcome Weary Feet (3:33)
5. Inner Cell (3:55)
6. Loyalty (3:38)
7. Horology (2:52)
8. Tetrachromacy (3:30)
9. Searching... (3:03)
10. The Fourth Color (6:12)

Total Time 43:46

Line-up: 
Michael Cavanagh: Drums (1-8), Percussion (1, 2, 3, 8, 10), Glass Marimba (1)
Cook Craig: Electric Guitar (1, 8, 10), Synthesisers (9, 10)
Ambrose Kenny-Smith: Harmonica (1, 3, 8, 10), Vocals (8, 10)
Stu Mackenzie: Vocals (1-10), Electric Guitar (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10), Bass Guitar (1, 3,-7, 9), Acoustic Guitar (2, 4, 8-10), Synthesisers (1-10), Flute (1-3, 5-8), Glass Marimba (1), Mellotron (2, 4), Percussion (9)
Lucas Skinner: Bass Guitar (10), Synthesiser (7)
Joey Walker: Electric Guitar (1, 3, 5-7, 10), Acoustic Guitar (3, 5), Bass Guitar (1, 2, 4, 8), Synthesisers (5-7, 9, 10), Vocals (1-8, 10), Percussion (1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10)
Leah Senior: Spoken Word (3)

Description/Reviews: 

King Gizzard built Polygondwanaland out of intricate, overlapping grooves. The songs are all in unfamiliar time signatures; they’re math problems that I can’t quite comprehend. ... But King Gizzard aren’t jam-band or tech-metal types; the technical dexterity is never the point. Instead, they use all that musicianship to craft an otherworldly rhythmic swirl.

Read the full review by Tom Breihan at stereogum.com

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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club "Sketches Of Brunswick East"

Country: Australia, USA
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Jazz, Fusion
Label: Flightless Records FLT-035 (AUS), Heavenly HVNLP143 (EU), ATO Records (US)
Format: CD, cassette, vinyl, digital
Release date: August 18, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Sketches Of Brunswick East I (1:20)
2. Countdown (3:22)
3. D-Day (1:39)
4. Tezeta (3:30)
5. Cranes, Planes, Migraines (1:15)
6. The Spider And Me (3:16)
7. Sketches Of Brunswick East II (3:25)
8. Dusk To Dawn On Lygon St (3:02)
9. The Book (4:59)
10. A Journey To (S)Hell (2:16)
11. Rolling Stoned (3:18)
12. You Can Be Your Silhouette (3:49)
13. Sketches Of Brunswick East III (2:08)

Total Time 37:19

Line-up: 
Mild High Club
Alex Brettin - electric piano (2, 6-8), synthesizers (2, 5, 7, 9), bass guitar (2, 8, 12), electric guitar (8, 10, 13), microtonal synthesizers (3, 5), optigan (3, 7), organ (4, 12), acoustic piano (1), electronic drum kit (7); additional overdubbing
Andrew Burt – guitar (11)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Stu Mackenzie – mellotron (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13), vocals (2, 3, 6, 9, 12), bass guitar (1, 4, 7, 8, 13), flute (1 4, 7, 11, 13), wah-wah guitar (2, 6, 11, 12), electric piano (1, 7), acoustic guitar (4, 12), microtonal guitar (3), glass marimbas (5), microtonal organ (9), synthesizers (11), piano (11), electric guitar (13)
Joey Walker – bass guitar (5, 6, 9, 10), shaker (3, 4), synthesizers (4, 5), microtonal bass guitar (3), glass marimbas (4), acoustic guitar (4), vocals (4), electric guitar (4), omnichord (11), piano (track 11), bongos (track 12), güiro (12); additional overdubbing
Michael Cavanagh – drum kit 1 (all tracks), bongos (1-5, 7-9, 11, 13), drum kit 2 (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-13), floor toms (1, 3, 7, 9, 13), maracas (1, 7, 11, 13), cowbell (4, 5, 9), snare brushes (1, 8), vibraslap (1, 8), tambourine (3, 9)
Cook Craig – electric guitar (1, 4, 5, 8, 9), fretless bass guitar (8, 11), vocals (8), synthesizers (8), bass guitar (11); additional overdubbing
Lucas Skinner – electric piano (2, 4, 6, 9), mellotron (2, 6), piano (11); additional overdubbing
Ambrose Kenny-Smith – harmonica (10-12), vocals (6)
Eric Moore – drum kit 2 (4)

Description/Reviews: 

Among the most relaxed material the band has ever put out, the new album deviates from King Gizzard’s long-established formula of jam band-esque psychedelic rock with surprisingly agile detours into soul, jazz, North African overtones, and pastoral English folk.

Read the full review by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni at pitchfork.com

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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard "Murder Of The Universe"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Retro Prog, Hard Rock
Label: Flightless Records FLT-033 (AUS), Heavenly HVNLP140 (EU), ATO Records ATO0400 (US)
Format: CD, cassette, vinyl, digital
Release date: June 23, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. A New World (0:57)
2. Altered Beast I (2:23)
3. Alter Me I (0:45)
4. Altered Beast II (4:28)
5. Alter Me II (1:25)
6. Altered Beast III (2:14)
7. Alter Me III (1:26)
8. Altered Beast IV (5:10)
9. Life / Death (0:59)
10. Some Context (0:16)
11. The Reticent Raconteur (1:05)
12. The Lord Of Lightning (5:07)
13. The Balrog (4:29)
14. The Floating Fire (1:54)
15. The Acrid Corpse (1:00)
16. Welcome To An Altered Future (0:55)
17. Digital Black (2:46)
18. Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg (2:21)
19. Soy-Protein Munt Machine (0:30)
20. Vomit Coffin (2:19)
21. Murder Of The Universe (4:09)

Total Time 46:38

Line-up: 
Stu Mackenzie – vocals, Hagström F12 guitar, Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, Mellotron flute, Mellotron choir, Yamaha Reface YC organ, Fender Mustang bass, Natural Reader UK Charles
Michael Cavanagh – '62 Maxwin drum kit, '61 Yamaha Tiger Red Swirl kit
Joey Walker – Yamaha SG-3 guitar, Yamaha Reface YC organ, Roland JX-3P synthesizer, Roland Juno-60 synthesizer
Ambrose Kenny-Smith – Hohner Special 20 harmonica, Yamaha Reface YC organ
Cook Craig – Rickenbacker 620 guitar
Lucas Skinner – Fender Mustang bass
   With
Leah Senior – spoken word (1-9, 11-15)

Description/Reviews: 

Bleeding into soft focus by way of a bed of Carpenter-esque synths and the soothing opening words of the album’s first narrator Leah Senior ..., the album’s first chapter, ‘Altered Beast 1-4’ aims straight up the jugular. A progged-out tetralogy conjuring the hectic hardcore thrust of last year’s Nonagon Infinity, it sees harmonica, synth, mellotron and a slew of shapeshifting rhythmic patterns congeal in a swirl that stems as much from the more cosmically inclined highpoints of Hawkwind and Amon Düül II as it does, say, Yes and Rush at their most insistent. 

Read the full review by Brian Coney at thequietus.com

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