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It’s just impressive that the Gizzard haven’t had to resort to such abstract audio Rothko-ism which is, let’s face it, a little more straightforward than penning several elaborate and exuberant progressive-psych masterpieces. They all have their merits and are just the transcendental ticket if you’re in the right mood. Not that there'd be anything necessarily wrong with an equivalent of Absolute II, Metal Machine Music or Silver Session, by the way. Granted, the final fifth album is still on its way and that one may yet turn out to resemble Sonic Youth’s Silver Session, but the efforts that have been pumped into the writing, honing, rehearsing and recording of the Gizzard’s four albums thus far have been nothing short of herculean. When King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard say they’re going to do something, they’re damn well going to do it properly. “Strewth guys, let’s just record an hour of roaring amplifier feedback and if we say it’s an album then that counts as a bloody album, all right?” But that tossed-off avant-garde one never arrived. The gnarled cynics among us thought there'd definitely be a Metal Machine Music among the bunch. Surely the Australian psychedelic septet would have no choice but to release something along the lines of the final instalment to Oneida’s ‘Thank Your Parents’ triptych: the dronesomely minimal Absolute II. When King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard first announced their ambitious scheme to release five albums within the space of 12 months, it was expected that at least one of those LPs might underwhelm. Bono’s unaccountable accountant? Ed blooming Sheeran.Įven the indomitable Sheeran has only managed to put out one album this year, the lazy get. Vladimir Putin perhaps, eyes glistening behind the botox as he watches us western wallies play right into his hands. It’s difficult to think of anybody who’s had a better year than King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard