![]() Change, the album's first track and by far its longest at 13 minutes, is easily one of their best tracks in recent memory, starting off in a standard backbeat rhythm before subtly shifting it with extra hi-hat and explosive drum fills that slow down again to introduce a whole new groove to dominate the last half of the track and its monstrous finish of noisy guitars and a bubbly guitar solo jumping off the vocal melody from before. Taking the album as a whole, there's a lot about Changes to love - not only because of how fun it is to hear the band sweetening up after Ice, Death, Planet.'s fiery psych-funk and the krautrock-laced Laminated Denim, but because the band at this point are near masters of making their longer tracks genuinely exciting all the way through. What it often lacks in sharpness it makes up for with gooey funk grooves and soul jazz richness. On Changes, their final October 2022 release, King Gizzard find themselves in a softer blend of funk, jazz and pop, pulling from the same well as Sketches of Brunswick East and Gumboot Soup as the band concerns themselves with colorful instrumentation and lengthy jazz-funk jams where the fun is found partly in immersing yourself in their pastel psychedelic dream and partly in close examination of their playful song structures and mesmerizing solo sections. Go as far out in their discography as Infest the Rats' Nest fiery thrash metal or last year's psychtronica highlight Butterfly 3000 and those elements are there in some form or another, King Gizzard's sound ever-morphing but the ways they go about those different musical planes largely the same. Various Artists - Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971 - 1983Īs varied a discography as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have, there are always calling cards that make it clear you're still listening to them: namely, their psych rock sound and its emphasis on long-form soloing and dreamy songcraft that ebbs and flows even as a defined structure holds it largely in one place. Various Artists - Interstellar Funk Presents Artificial Dancers: Waves Of Synth Various Artists - Join The Future: UK Bleep & Bass 1988 - 1991 Uranium Club - Live for the Very First Time (In Italy) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live In Maui Richard Skelton - These Charms May Be Sung Over a Woundįavourite Reissues, Compilations, Soundtracks and Live Albums 2020īeverly Glenn-Copeland - Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copelandīlack Sabbath - Paranoid Super Deluxe Box Setĭavid Bowie - I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour '74) Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas '95) The Sorcerers - In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God Sault - Untitled (Black Is) Untitled (Rise) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals Jennifer Walshe - A Late Anthology of Early Music, Vol. The second part of what I neglected to do at the time. ![]()
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