![]() However, there’s something to be said about how these two double albums and their different approaches have received different results, starting with KGLW. There’s no singular sonic which might grate listeners as the microtonality could on KGLW. The expanded Gumboot Soup approach means there’s no real sore point that the album keeps pushing upon. But we’ll discuss that later.įor now, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are masters of the ad hoc album. It tours everything: AnCo-infused electronica, Tullite jazz fusion, thrashing Mastodontic metal, lo-fi Toro y Gizz chillwave, and beastly boutique hip-hop. Or it’s structured to be, at the very least. But don’t let the memes within and without this band’s oeuvre distract us from the fact that album twenty functions as a greatest hits record. Hell, their emoticon-laden tracklist tweets only showed a band still liable to chaff and banter with their rabid following, the Gator Gang. The six-piece themselves are master-memers and on record as saying humans are laughing themselves to death. Omnium Gatherum – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Only this time, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard didn’t jump at the chance to break it in half, Jim Ross as my witness. Let’s just sum it up in the first sentence: If KGLW was the spiritual successor to Flying Microtonal Banana, then Omnium Gatherum is Gumboot Soup, Vols. Omnium Gatherum by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ‘Omnium Gatherum’ – King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard ‘Omnium Gatherum’ is a conundrum: A grab-bag of all things, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s dizzying double album will leave listeners picking favorites and forgetting others.
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