One of Australia’s bright under the radar talents King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard, are in for a chaotic year as the psychedelic rock band are said to release five albums in 2017. The first comes to us under the title ‘Flying Microtonal Banana’ the band's ninth studio album since 2012’s 12 Bar Bruise. The band brings more experiments to their acid-garage rock, not shying far from their progressive style only adding raga pop influenced guitar riffs, and jazz styled tracks.
Opening track ‘Rattlesnake’, the first single released prior to the release keeps momentum with 2016’s ‘Nonagon Infinity’ fast tempo krautrock with minimal/repetitive lyrics. ‘Melting’ may be the band's ode to global warming, the jazzy drums and piano are a perfect example of the band's lack of ear to try new sounds. The other two singles from the album ‘Sleep Drifter’ and ‘Nuclear Fusion’ are both very well done raga pop progressive rock tracks with frontman Stu Mackenzie signature flute.
‘Billabong Valley’ has Old Western vibes similar to Cage the Elephants latest. Mackenzie finds no lack for his confusing choice in words “Bloodthirsty/Tendencies/Anti-Authority/Mad dog Morgan” to tell a story of a brutal death to a savage man. The album is well crafted from beginning to end showing the bands talents in making tight rock music with unordinary change-ups and continuous use of genre experimentation.
8/10
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