King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are an Australian psychedelic rock band who formed in 2010. This is their tenth album (of seemingly thousands of albums...), which was released in 2017, the same year as Flying Microtonal Banana.
Tale of the Altered Beast kicks off with a great bouncing energy and manic riff... but it soon wears out its welcome for me. Also I find the narration throughout the album, which considers the perils of disaffected monsters and cyborgs (or some such bollocks), to be quite grating.
The Lord of Lightening vs Balrog brings a welcome slowing of the pace, which is much easier to get into the groove of. Until it jumps back to full speed, dammit! The lessen here is probably that prog-rock isn't really for me, even when it's on speed like this. Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe backs up this theory, with the raucous riff-rock of the chapters Digital Black and Vomit Coffin being the highlight of this album for me, although unfortunately the latter includes a lot of the non-sensical spoken word stuff.
Favourite songs
Digital Black
Final thoughts
Maybe I didn't give this album enough time to permeate into my soul. Or maybe this style is just not for me.
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