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
First half is all Nonagon all the time, and it ends with a fantastic Head On-Pill that also goes Nonagon when yr least expecting it
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Monday, 7 December 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
What's KG? I loved microtonal banana but never really got this band beyond that.
― Duke, Monday, 7 December 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
It's the name of their latest album
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
it has like a dance track which feels ~weird~, but what, am i gonna tell THIS band how to genre?
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
Yeah, “Intrasport”, the weird disco track stands out a little, but it segues so nicely into the next song that I can’t hate it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
KG is very Microtonal, it's great
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
This rules.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
LW out Friday, lol
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
i was into this band for a bit but haven't kept up with them at all, and now i see them being used on social media (even tiktok) as shorthand for annoying arcane prog rock dorks in the same way as tool, so i guess they've hit the big time
― na (NA), Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
they're still great, love both kg & lw - strong albums both!
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:45 (three years 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (eight months ago) link
like a month ago, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:00 (eight months ago) link
Yup, but just shared on their instagram this morning
― serving aunt (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:41 (eight months ago) link
Gila Gila Gila!WOO!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 8 September 2023 03:00 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
\o/
sticking it on right now
― churl of england (ledge), Friday, 8 September 2023 13:02 (six 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 (six months ago) link
it was certainly a very very persuasive way to open the set
― woof, Friday, 8 September 2023 13:27 (six 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 (six 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
out today. oh god uhh this sounds incredible.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 27 October 2023 00:07 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
first one of the extended versions is wonderful
― ufo, Friday, 27 October 2023 05:11 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
this is excellent running music.
― organ doner (ledge), Saturday, 28 October 2023 16:56 (five months ago) link
^hugely looking forward to running to this.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 30 October 2023 15:00 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 November 2023 15:34 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link