King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Brisbane's superbly-named garage psych crew want to get in your Mind Fuzz.
Overview
Brisbane's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are one of the country's best garage psych bands out right now. The seven-strong dude crew have just announced the release of their exquisitely-titled fifth album I'm In Your Mind Fuzz out on Friday, October 31 through Flightless/Remote Control Records. The first track off the album 'Cellophane' dropped at the beginning of September and if you're a fan of fuzzy, fast psychedelia you'll be spinning this one right off the table.
The King Gizz lads haven't just settled for local snaps. Over the last few months, the crew have snavelled some seriously impressive international handshakes — the new album will be released by Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer on his label Castle Face Records in the USA and in the UK and Europe on Heavenly Recordings. Big. Stuff.
Though many have tried, no one quite nails the Gizz sound like their new friend John Dwyer of Castle Face Records:
"This Australian beast of a band with a bear of a name and a thick herd of band members delivers many things to us on this warped song cycle — a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness, flutes and harmonicas bleeding through the mix often and welcomingly, tons of wah and a hero's journey/heavy metal early '80s fantasy sort of vibe, and many lovely left turns into psychedelic mellowing, both groovily and sometimes with just a dash of DMT dread. The whole thing is just gooey with tape manipulations, phase shifts, and saturations, but there are clearly many tasty tidbits that bubble to the top, and they're sticky." Epic.
The 'sticky' sounds of King Gizz have been meandering through their Sino-Australian tour dates, with massive, rambunctious shows already in the bag from Sydney and Perth, as well as the crew's debut festival performance in Beijing this year. Get amongst the Mind Fuzz before the lads head over to Europe — after their US East Coast tour with White Fence, alongside NYC's CMJ and a special Terminal 5 show supporting Mac De Marco.
Supported by The Murlocs.
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