The fuzz is strong with this one, but again at four minutes 42 seconds, it’s far from snappy and it’s lyrically indistinct. It has to be said though, that if you’re looking for that kind of thing you can easily find it executed with a lot more passion by bands such as The Lemon Twigs, Foxygen, White Denim or even The Black Keys. ‘Boogieman Sam’ follows and probably represents the band’s best interpretation of 1970s bluesy glam rock. Album Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest.Fresher Sounds – The best new music – 13/08/19.Its delicate guitar passages are perfectly pleasant, backed by a bumbling walking bassline, and there’s a jazzy interjection of a Fender Rhodes at around the four-minute mark, but this is insufficient to save it from brash harmonicas and moronic lyrics such as, “ I don’t want to catch none/ I’m let them swum”. It’s one of the longest on the album, and all that for what seems like a painfully shallow absurdity. This is sadly absent on Fishing for Fishies, which never seems to fully escape the tradition it draws from.Ī shuffling beat introduces the title track after a false start. Whether exploring the notes in between the western scale on Flying Microtonal Banana, delving into “post-audiobook” on Murder of the Universe or creating a fully looping album on Polygondwonaland, King Gizzard is always innovating. While varying in quality, all of 2017’s LPs were at least strikingly ambitious. Fishing for Fishies reimagines the genre only in as far as it can, which is ultimately not a great distance.Īlbum Art 'Fishing for Fishies' (2019) Fishing for Fishies is not epic. From the soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of ‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real Is Real’ – what The Carpenters might have sounded like had they existed entirely on vegemite and weed – it’s a dizzying, dazzling display.After 2017's prolific run of five high-concept psych-rock albums, the Perth seven-piece King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard returns with bluesy glam and environmentalism. The thirteenth album since their 2012 debut – and their first following the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 – Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. Where the past and future collide in the beautiful present.
Here is a world where the organic meets the automated where the rustic meets the robotic. Sit back and strap yourself in as seven-headed Aussie rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with Fishing for Fishies, perhaps their most perfectly-realised album to date.
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