
Here we are at the end of November, and as promised we have another album from Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, with one more on the way of their claims are to be believed. The band's 2017 output has been interesting, to say the least;
Flying Microtonal Banana was an exciting and thoroughly enjoyable foray into microtonal tunings,
Murder of the Universe saw the band experiment with spoken word driven narrative rock to slightly less successful effect, and their collaboration album with Mild High Club titled
Sketches of Brunswick East (an homage to Miles Davis'
Sketches of Spain) was fairly docile flop consisting mainly of tame elevator jazz. Thankfully the band have pulled it back dramatically with the fantastically absurd
Polygondwanaland, the best King Giz album since the throttling
Nonagon Infinity. There is less focus on any sort of gimmick as their recent albums have done, and a much sharper focus on songwriting. I really do wish they would take the time to write one of these albums every couple of years instead of pumping out such inconsistent material.
Rating: 8/10
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