You should, it rules.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
Turned up in Pitchfork's overlooked music list about a week ago:
http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9910-overlooked-albums-2016/
― Mercury 422 830 398, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't PMDB the stylistic diversion?
yes. nonagon infinity just doubles down on the fidgety, high-energy, garage punk that's their primary through-line so far. one of my 2016 favorites, and i'm surprised it hasn't caught on with fans of tongue-in-cheek prog oddity.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is great. never listened to any of their other albums
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 25 July 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
finally listening to this, great! they really got psychedelic ants in their pants
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
based on this i feel like they'd be really fun live
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 25 July 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
yeah def seem "high energy"
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
global have you heard General Baby (local band), has a bit of this vibe but more lo-fi zappa
(it's from that whole larry wish & his guys house show axis that i don't really fully understand)
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
never heard of em!
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 25 July 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
General Baby don't even have a web presence, really
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 25 July 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
oops i guess they used to be fortified five that's why it's hard to find
https://fortifiedfive.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-demonstration-on-baby-talkin
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Ilx doesn't love the gizzards and that's a fact.the last album is very good though.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
most recent one (polygondwanaland) is super-proggy and totally rules. these aussie freaks own 2017 imho
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
this is one of the best bands going rn
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
I like them
― sleeve, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
especially their microtonal/weird tuning stuff, a lot of stuff on that Banana record sounds great.
not so keen on the new one with narration, it seems extraneous
Yeah i meant polygondwa above as their best record of the year. I wish they werent as repetitive melody wise though. Like back in the Fill Your Lungs days..
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
they seem like they're excellent live too- the main guy definitely borrows some john dwyer moves tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHgpVU3UuU
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/_Eg3OUQPayk
Gold
― nostormo, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDnOJkrRv3g
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Who can report on the new one ?
― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
bit of a psychedelic soul vibe. mellower stuff, a la paper mache dream balloon and sketches of brunswick east
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
Sounds like mediocre b-sides for all previous 4, except for one surprising and great doom metal/Uncle Acid style song (Great Chain Of Being)
― nostormo, Saturday, 30 December 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
"muddy water" sounds like a victory lap
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
"barefoot desert" is dope. 1 year, 64 songs. damn!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
destroying all that will keep us heading for a meta-thesis
\m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
chill band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCswmcSALI
― Slippage (Ross), Monday, 11 June 2018 07:18 (five years ago) link
I only need to see nardwuar once every 5 years or so but that is good servietting
― Hunt3r, Monday, 11 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
Friend last night: "have you heard ... they're called like ... Daniel Strudel and the Noodle Doodle?"
― mick signals, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Omg actual lol
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
ILM don't care about Gizzard and you may be right at this point.Used to be great though.
― nostormo, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
ok i listened to the latest i was erm not expecting straight 86 speed metally thrash. Its not terrible i guess.
It made me think of HNIA’s different smart-ass visitation to metalfrom 2016, which was like, sunshine prog-metal(?). HNIA’s album was actually much more interesting imo.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 23 August 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
lot of young aussie bro's really really like these dudes (and possibly drugs??)
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Friday, 23 August 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
because i'm slightly interested in what they're on about, repeated listens haven't been bad, also the guit style is more thrash than beedleybeedleybeedlebeedely. i guess ecoconscious thrash shit is closer fit for olds who are more garage or postpunk maybe. 'i have gone insane-o i lust for volcano pee with molten lava give me my nirvana' and 'auto-cremate! self-immolate!'
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 24 August 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
Taking my son to see them in a few weeks, he's a big fan. Trying to get caught up on their endless catalog. They seem like great musicians, very creative and intense, but the sheer repetition of their approach wears me down.
Which ones should I listen to if I want to hear them mix it up more? So far I've liked Flying Microtonal Banana the most, but I've barely scratched the surface.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 26 August 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
nonagon infinity is the most accessible to early olds imo, it's relentless and stirring.
i love the first one that was my intro, which is very psych- can't remember the name, it has Head On/Pill?
I'm in Your Mindfuzz is pretty strong imo.
I was meh on Fishing For Fishies which is working that sound conceit so hard, or maybe not the sound I wanted. The recent is really fun, but it's way chewing gummy to me. Still the more I listen, there more I am charmed by it.
I can't remember Polygondwanaland, so...
― Hunt3r, Monday, 26 August 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
I was half-hoping the new one would be even more thrashy, which is kind of a funny thing — they're constantly churning out so many records in so many different veins that you wind up with a fairly loose attachment to any of them sounding particularly Gizzardy. Or maybe it's just the nature of thrash that once you blend a little of it into what you're doing, it starts feeling like you might as well thrash all the way; it's kind of an extremist genre!
At some point they should release a detailed guide to their working methods, like a productivity self-help book for rock musicians. At this point I'm just curious how they divide up their time.
― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Minimize chord progressions, tempo changes, syncopation, and vocal melodies seems to be part of it, at least for the straightforward rock LPs.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
gonna guess no
― some men just want to watch the world Bern (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 5:06 PM (three years ago)
this is definitive
― j., Tuesday, 27 August 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
Is it?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
gonna guess yes
― j., Tuesday, 27 August 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
Infest The Rats' Nest is kind of a wild record. I think I like them in metal mode more than some. This pretty much sounds like old school Metallica meets Sleep.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
one of the better metal albums of 2019 so far imo
you could say "it's just kind of a gloss of common metal ideas" to which i would say so is like 80% of metal nowadays
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 5 September 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
I saw them play in Austin last night, pretty good show. Huge, extremely hyped up crowd. The new songs went over really well, but there was a little too much time spent on the slow jazzy numbers, letting all the band members sing songs, and some endless boogie beats. Needed a bit more of the fast-paced material.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Ooh, I'm liking K.G. so far. A return to the microtonal shit.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
Very fun yes, and some enjoyable curveballs as well
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 20 November 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
K.G. is indeed really good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
The Live In SF LP is great as well
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
That's next on my list to spin, actually.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 December 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
btw I'm kinda wondering which records to get, I've got Nonagon and Ice, Death, Planets etc. and I like both of those. I'm more into the band's krautrocky/proggy side than I am the metal stuff
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:39 (ten months ago) link
Flying Microtonal Banana
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:46 (ten months ago) link
laminated denim very kraut/prog, only 30 minutes but better for it i think.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link
Omnium Gatherum is a great grab-bag of everything. Polygonwanaland has Crumbling Castle, their great krautprog anthem. KG and LW are great subsequent volumes of their Turkish psych stuff.
― serving aunt (stevie), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:42 (ten months ago) link
cool thanks, I know my local shop has at least one of those
listening to Ice, Death, Planets etc. and I kinda get how they can do so much so fast - it's song based but I suspect like 2/3rds of it is improv. or at least began as improv. that's kinda what Can did I think.
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2023 02:49 (ten months ago) link
I think their song writing has gotten more complex on recent albums, but yeah, this is basically true.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 16 June 2023 04:15 (ten months ago) link
This is from the Ice Death press release, it's pretty interesting about the improv nature of that album, which was inspired itself by how impov'd a lot of The Dripping Tap was:
For this new album, however, the group wouldn’t be bringing in any pre-written songs or ideas; instead, they planned to cook up all the music together in the studio, on the spot.Ambitious stuff, then. “All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles,” says Mackenzie. “I have a list on my phone of hundreds of possible song titles. I’ll never use most of them, but they’re words and phrases I feel could be digested into King Gizzard-world.” Mackenzie selected seven titles from his list that he felt “had a vibe”, and then attached a beats-per-minute value to each one. Each song would also follow one of the seven modes of the major scale: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian (“I’m not sure if many people will notice that,” says Mackenzie, “but any musical dorks will get it”).Over seven days, the group recorded hours and hours of jams, dedicating a day to each mode and BPM. “Naturally, each day’s jams had a different flavour, because each day was in a different scale and a different BPM,” Mackenzie says. “We’d walk into the studio, set everything up, get a rough tempo going and just jam. No preconceived ideas at all, no concepts, no songs. We’d jam for maybe 45 minutes, and then all swap instruments and start again.”The group ended each day with four-to-five hours of new jams in the can. Mackenzie auditioned those jams after the sessions were done, stitching them together into the songs that feature on the 21st studio album by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava (the initials of the title, IDPLMAL, spell out a mnemonic for the modes). “I went through it all and cut it up,” he said, of the hours of new music he’d recorded to two-track tape, preferring to “commit to print” over the conveniences of modern digital production. “It was a huge editing job, actually. I edited each track down to ten-to-fifteen minutes of music drawn from that specific day’s recordings, trying to find narratives, arcs and loops within the jams. So the songs were actually written during this editing phase, which was something we’d never done before ‘The Dripping Tap’. The raw power, the real energy, was just a loose jam, and then we refined it and edited it in a way that felt very musical.”Having assembled full working instrumentals from these jams, Mackenzie and his bandmates began overdubbing flute, organ, percussion and extra guitar over the top. The lyrics, meanwhile, were a group effort. “We had an editable Google Sheet that we were all working on,” says Mackenzie. “Most of the guys in the band wrote a lot of the lyrics, and it was my job to arrange it all and piece it together.”The result of this radical, experimental creative process is one of the densest, most unpredictable statements from a band whose work always rockets in from unexpected angles accompanied by a wealth of subtext and theorems. But you don’t even need even a passing understanding of those Ancient Greek musical modes to appreciate this adventurous new music. Highlights include ‘Lava’, a suite of pure fire music that swings between spiritual jazz and new age visions, powered by psychedelic saxophones, shimmering cymbals and McCoy Tyner-esque pianos, and the wormhole-riding prog-folk excursions of ‘Magma’, which leads unsuspecting listeners into unfamiliar realms via the siren call of Mackenzie’s flute, while ‘Ice V’ delivers apocalyptic funk with a cool hand at the controls, ‘Hell’s Itch’ hypnotises with its coiling guitar lines, hard honking harmonica and polymorphic basslines, and the ever-shifting ‘Iron Lung’ follows the choppy grooves of its happy/sad songcraft through unexpected twists and turns, a vision of pop refracted through a house of mirrors. Sinister closer Gliese 710, meanwhile, pushes ever onwards into the darkness, its lumbering-but-lithe heaviosity enough to get corpses to nod their heads.Listen close and you can hear the electric interaction between the members of King Gizzard, the pure, distilled instrumental fire at their disposal, the simpatico musical conversations between these friends. Pull back and you’ll marvel at how their lightning-in-a-bottle improvisations yield songs of such craft, such laser-guided focus. This freeform creative process – chasing the moment in the jam, then selecting flashpoints and highlights afterwards – is one Mackenzie can see the family Gizzard returning to in the future. “We’re already jamming a lot more onstage,” he says. “I guess bands like Can made records this way before, but it’s new to us, and it was a really, really fun experience.”Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava is already one of Mackenzie’s favourite Gizzard records to date. “It’s like we were able to escape song structures,” he says. “It felt ‘far out’ for us – we took heaps of risks and did heaps of different new things on this one. It wasn’t just about one concept – there’s stacks embedded in this one.”
Over seven days, the group recorded hours and hours of jams, dedicating a day to each mode and BPM. “Naturally, each day’s jams had a different flavour, because each day was in a different scale and a different BPM,” Mackenzie says. “We’d walk into the studio, set everything up, get a rough tempo going and just jam. No preconceived ideas at all, no concepts, no songs. We’d jam for maybe 45 minutes, and then all swap instruments and start again.”
The group ended each day with four-to-five hours of new jams in the can. Mackenzie auditioned those jams after the sessions were done, stitching them together into the songs that feature on the 21st studio album by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava (the initials of the title, IDPLMAL, spell out a mnemonic for the modes). “I went through it all and cut it up,” he said, of the hours of new music he’d recorded to two-track tape, preferring to “commit to print” over the conveniences of modern digital production. “It was a huge editing job, actually. I edited each track down to ten-to-fifteen minutes of music drawn from that specific day’s recordings, trying to find narratives, arcs and loops within the jams. So the songs were actually written during this editing phase, which was something we’d never done before ‘The Dripping Tap’. The raw power, the real energy, was just a loose jam, and then we refined it and edited it in a way that felt very musical.”
Having assembled full working instrumentals from these jams, Mackenzie and his bandmates began overdubbing flute, organ, percussion and extra guitar over the top. The lyrics, meanwhile, were a group effort. “We had an editable Google Sheet that we were all working on,” says Mackenzie. “Most of the guys in the band wrote a lot of the lyrics, and it was my job to arrange it all and piece it together.”
The result of this radical, experimental creative process is one of the densest, most unpredictable statements from a band whose work always rockets in from unexpected angles accompanied by a wealth of subtext and theorems. But you don’t even need even a passing understanding of those Ancient Greek musical modes to appreciate this adventurous new music. Highlights include ‘Lava’, a suite of pure fire music that swings between spiritual jazz and new age visions, powered by psychedelic saxophones, shimmering cymbals and McCoy Tyner-esque pianos, and the wormhole-riding prog-folk excursions of ‘Magma’, which leads unsuspecting listeners into unfamiliar realms via the siren call of Mackenzie’s flute, while ‘Ice V’ delivers apocalyptic funk with a cool hand at the controls, ‘Hell’s Itch’ hypnotises with its coiling guitar lines, hard honking harmonica and polymorphic basslines, and the ever-shifting ‘Iron Lung’ follows the choppy grooves of its happy/sad songcraft through unexpected twists and turns, a vision of pop refracted through a house of mirrors. Sinister closer Gliese 710, meanwhile, pushes ever onwards into the darkness, its lumbering-but-lithe heaviosity enough to get corpses to nod their heads.
Listen close and you can hear the electric interaction between the members of King Gizzard, the pure, distilled instrumental fire at their disposal, the simpatico musical conversations between these friends. Pull back and you’ll marvel at how their lightning-in-a-bottle improvisations yield songs of such craft, such laser-guided focus. This freeform creative process – chasing the moment in the jam, then selecting flashpoints and highlights afterwards – is one Mackenzie can see the family Gizzard returning to in the future. “We’re already jamming a lot more onstage,” he says. “I guess bands like Can made records this way before, but it’s new to us, and it was a really, really fun experience.”
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava is already one of Mackenzie’s favourite Gizzard records to date. “It’s like we were able to escape song structures,” he says. “It felt ‘far out’ for us – we took heaps of risks and did heaps of different new things on this one. It wasn’t just about one concept – there’s stacks embedded in this one.”
Petro D operates along similar lines - all 7 tracks were written from improvs, each track written and recorded in a single day, each day of improv starting from scratch but following a loose idea of the "story" that track was supposed to "tell".
― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, 16 June 2023 07:54 (ten months ago) link
I’m not sure which is cooler, if that pr is true, or if it is just totally false—SIKE! i like both possibilities but it seems v specific
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Friday, 16 June 2023 13:19 (ten months ago) link
they were on Office Hours with Tim Heidecker this week. wonder if those fanbases cross over much, both King Gizzard and On Cinema are great things to get into if you have hundreds of hours to spare
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2023 14:36 (ten months ago) link
I'm digging PetroDragonic Apocalypse, I like them in thrash metal mode and this has a bit of that non-stop Nonagon Infinity energy as well.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:07 (ten months ago) link
I've quickly grown to appreciate a lot of what this band is up to, but I don't think I would have made the effort without the metal stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:20 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, i find that I connect with them more in lava/death mode than in mushroom/planets mode (which is opposite of what I expected going in).
― enochroot, Saturday, 24 June 2023 22:32 (ten months ago) link
I think what makes them fun is they have both those sides.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 25 June 2023 02:33 (ten months ago) link
They played Tennessee in drag. Kings.https://www.instagram.com/p/CujMAKjR863/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― serving aunt (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 08:21 (ten months ago) link
like a month ago, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:00 (ten months ago) link
Yup, but just shared on their instagram this morning
― serving aunt (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:41 (ten months ago) link
Gila Gila Gila!WOO!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 8 September 2023 03:00 (eight months ago) link
They just put out a 40-track official (but still already much bootlegged) compilation of all three Chicago nights.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 September 2023 12:09 (eight months ago) link
After a pretty traditional journey (put off by name; people persuade me they're actually pretty good; attempt to listen but immediately give up when confronted by SO MANY albums) I saw them at the End of the Road festival, found them huge huge fun and now I just listen to The Dripping Tap all day.
― woof, Friday, 8 September 2023 12:23 (eight months ago) link
\o/
sticking it on right now
― churl of england (ledge), Friday, 8 September 2023 13:02 (eight months ago) link
Dripping Tap is their best track I reckon, no shade on their wealth of other brilliant music. It's like this glorious waterslide constructed from motorik jams.
― honey badger drinks when he wants (stevie), Friday, 8 September 2023 13:25 (eight months ago) link
it was certainly a very very persuasive way to open the set
― woof, Friday, 8 September 2023 13:27 (eight months ago) link
One thing that has been helpful in wading through the massive discography is that it's so diverse that if you're looking for a particular sound, you can narrow it down somewhat. I'm far from comprehensive in my knowledge but this thread's namesake album is a good next step from the Dripping Tap.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 10 September 2023 00:57 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jnsD-fEHdY
new album is their synth album and comes in two versions - one with all the tracks under 5 minutes (but they seem to segue together judging by the three-song suite they've released) and one with all the tracks extended into 10+ minute jams for their longest album yet.
sounds quite promising
― ufo, Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:52 (seven months ago) link
lol I just listened to their last album (which was straight up metal) so this is kind of a shock. I mean you know that's what they do but still. very interested in this one
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 13:29 (seven months ago) link
out today. oh god uhh this sounds incredible.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 27 October 2023 00:07 (six months ago) link
Yeah I played some of the extended version and it was great. Probably just gonna wait for an LP release, it’s not like there’s a shortage of King Gizz records I haven’t heard
― frogbs, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:51 (six months ago) link
the short version is great but i'm a little disappointed the tracks don't quite all segue together
― ufo, Friday, 27 October 2023 04:47 (six months ago) link
first one of the extended versions is wonderful
― ufo, Friday, 27 October 2023 05:11 (six months ago) link
some of these extended versions are transcendent and some do not justify their length at all
― ufo, Friday, 27 October 2023 12:28 (six months ago) link
I agree with that, but I'm still having a blast. When that one track ("Set"?) busts out a Freedom Williams-esque rap verse I cracked up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:47 (six months ago) link
Actually, there's a lot of stadium house/KLF coursing through a lot of this. But also nods to drum and bass, acid, etc.
Lol at this line in the allmusic review: "... giving the listener more time to wonder why the band chose to go down this route." Like, of all the bands that would make you ask "why," this band is not one of them.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 October 2023 23:13 (six months ago) link
this is excellent running music.
― organ doner (ledge), Saturday, 28 October 2023 16:56 (six months ago) link
^hugely looking forward to running to this.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 30 October 2023 15:00 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 November 2023 15:34 (six months ago) link
Before the album came out I saw a few references to Giorgio Moroder, and of course they've done Krautrock (sort of), so I was not expecting the Eurodance jock-jam vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 November 2023 16:47 (six months ago) link
me neither but everything they do is a bit silly so it's not exactly out of character. I think this is what's so endearing about them, for example I'm not really a metal guy but I dug Petrodragonic Apocalypse because it wasn't afraid to be dumb in a real fun way. I mean "Gila Monster" is one of the few metal tracks I've heard that really made me laugh.
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 November 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
I know better than to get hung up on just one particular album from these guys and this made for a fun listen (esp the extended version), but I don't know, this whole album and rollout feels to me like they are leaning way too hard into pleasing the reddit fanbase or something. It just seems too intentionally meme ready and winking, or something. I dunno, it's hard to put into words how I'm feeling about it, but I guess this is where I think the silliness outstrips the quality of the music and I've never really felt that way before.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 November 2023 17:46 (six months ago) link
I enjoyed the euro techno jock jam esp because i was rollerskiing. at least they good at what they do.
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:01 (six months ago) link
found a copy of Polygondwanaland today and wow this is just up my alley. real progressive and kind of electrofunky. genuinely nuts that this is was one of FIVE albums they did that year. with most modern prog acts you're lucky if you get an album like this every 4 years.
― frogbs, Sunday, 12 November 2023 04:12 (six months ago) link