![]() But King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard never rest on their laurels. And the band’s signature long form jams are now broken up by some of the slickest, tightest pop tunes ever to come out of Melbourne. ![]() The unhinged eastern-tinged psychedelic stylings of Float Along and Oddments are given urgency and purpose by the tight, crunching shredding that feels pulled right from Infest The Rats Nest. The slickly layered vocals & synths of Butterfly 3000 give the Nonagon-influenced motorkik beats a feeling of polish and richness that weren’t found in earlier releases. You can hear all of the lessons King Gizzard have learned over the years coalesce and come together into a glorious whole on this beast of an album. Omnium Gatherum’s greatest achievement isn’t its length, its number of addictive grooves, or ample shredditude – but its cohesion. ![]() But it isn’t a classic: it was home to many great grooves but it’s haphazard tonal shifts divided their genre-crossing sound rather than uniting it, leading to a release that felt like a collection of B-sides more than a real album with it’s own identity. And yet all of these disparate elements exist here in harmony: complimenting one another while achieving a real sense of cohesion in spite of the wild stylistic shifts that occur within the album’s mammoth two hour runtime.Ī good contrast to Omnium Gatherum is 2017’s Gumboot Soup: a fine album, and a deliberate end-cap to that year’s 5 album run that put the band on the map. It’s cunning synthesis of crushing psychedelia, breezy indie pop, pulse pounding metal, and serotonin-dipped grooves simply shouldn’t work as well as it does. When ‘The Dripping Tap’ evolved from a Float Along inspired garage jam into a Butterfly-&-Fishies informed bluesy neo-psych bliss fest, I knew the band had truly arrived: at the conclusive final destination that nobody on this twisting and turning Road Train of pumped-out releases was expecting. Prior to Omnium Gatherum, each King Gizzard album had the character of an unhinged experiment – but now the band has pulled back the curtain, and in the thrilling 18 minute opener ‘The Dripping Tap’ they have proudly announced that those madcap experiments were each deliberate *lessons.* Lessons leading to this moment.Ībout halfway through the album’s opener I knew that this was the definitive culmination of all of their prior works. But it represents this band at their creative apex. Nor does it offer extensions or conclusions to their Gizzverse canon. Not because it answers the call of some unmet need. Omnium Gatherum is the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard album we’ve all been waiting for. Perhaps their most indulgent: but hell, at this point our boys from Melbourne have earned it. With Omnium Gatherum we see King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at their most free. A point which few self-produced indie bands reach: and yet here we are. The liberation of a strong foundation and a fanbase ready to appreciate just about any curveball you throw at them. Review Summary: This is the King Gizzard album we've all been waiting for: the synthesis of their decade long experimentation - complete with yet another genre defying stylistic shift.Īfter over ten years and twenty albums, after emerging from sweaty basements to festival headliner status, what does King Gizzard have left to prove?
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