King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
FLIGHT b741


4.0
excellent

Review

by Matty CONTRIBUTOR (63 Reviews)
August 12th, 2024 | 92 replies


Release Date: 08/09/2024 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Gotta Leave My Problems at the Jet Bridge

Good afternoon, Passengers

Welcome aboard Flight b741, my name is King Gizzard of the Lizard Wizards Flight Academy, and I will be your pilot and Captain today. It’s a beautiful sunny day so we should experience little to no turbulence during the entirety of the flight, but I do have a short list of things that you may in fact experience during this short forty-three minute and six second flight. Before I begin, please be courteous to your flight attendants and be sure that your carry-on baggage is strapped in securely. Thank you.

First and foremost, don’t be alarmed should you begin tapping your toes to distinct bluesy melodies that fill the cabin during our ascent. The country/blues influenced guitar licks and nostalgia-bitten harmonica passages tend to offer our passengers a sense of comfort which leaves them vulnerable to involuntary toe spasms. You might also experience brief flashbacks to backyard barbeques at your Aunt Nancy and Uncle Bob’s lake house with the radio blasting all afternoon, attempting to attach worms to your fishing lures while sitting on a wooden dock. These feelings are normal and in fact, advised given the circumstances of these tasteful riffs that carry the weight of 60’s and 70’s blues radio.

Secondly, you will experience sort of an unprecedented barrage of unique voices coming through the speakers unlike you’ve heard before, a sort of more varied approach to this flight that utilizes the individual talents of each of our staff here who all surprisingly have good voices. We’ve actually all been taking turns as Captain and giving our own individual input and ideas as to how our flight should turn out and, in the process, we’ve created one of our most cohesive and creatively interesting flights in a while. With each of our unique experiences and backgrounds being present in person each day, we’ve collaborated more than ever and have truly crafted something that feels more focused and well-oiled than we’ve built before.

Thirdly, unfortunately we might have taken a bit too much acid one too many times before our test flight simulations, so some of things we talk about and express during this finely tuned forty minutes feel like drunken jargon with very little sense being made. I’m sure this isn’t something you aren’t used to with our many flight offerings prior to this, but just be warned…this one is especially weird. But it’s catchy so that’s okay….right? I mean there’s literally a part of this flight where we talk about a Hog Calling Contest and how awesome it is to be rolling around in our ***, so yeah.

I think that sort of sums up the entirety of your proposed flight experience for today. We most certainly hope that you enjoy yourselves and take the time to dance a little with some of the loose pigs that we’ve uncaged now that the doors are shut airtight. We’ve replaced all your emergency oxygen masks with Skullcandy earbuds so buckle up and have a good time! If you don’t, you’ll make me a Sad Pilot.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 12th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Please enjoy the ramblings of someone who hasn't written in a while.

keaton_86
August 12th 2024


997 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I say this as someone who loves(loved?) king gizz but i honestly think this album is beyond bland. The mixing is atrocious, even for them and the songs are somehow both forgettable and overwhelming. It felt like a very long 40 minutes.



Hot take, but they're so popular now that they just put anything out and their fanbase eats it up and their music quality is massively suffering.

rufinthefury
August 12th 2024


4217 Comments


Fun review. Equally fun album. Definitely not on the top of my list of Gizz albums but it's not on the bottom neither. Mirage City and the title track are worth the price of admission alone.

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 12th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

@keaton_86 maybe it's just because that moment of feeling like their music was becoming stale and bland hit me more on Silver Cord, I actually felt that this was a revitalized band. Reminded me a bit of some of their earlier albums in a way which felt like a breath of fresh air. That's just me though.



@rufinthefury Mirage City is probably my favorite at the moment

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 12th 2024


6290 Comments


Neg'd, those baggage fees are out of control!

Great review and fun read.

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 12th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Sunny, appreciate you!

Nomos2
August 12th 2024


2024 Comments


Gotta agree with Keaton here, but I'm not faulting the band much at all. They sound like they had a lot of fun making it, and it's a nice throwback album for them, a little heavy on pastiche, not terrible.

But not very engaging for me personally, a bit neutered while still sounding like fundamentally them.

Guess I'll need more spins.

Fun review!

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 12th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Can totally understand that @Nomos2. I guess that's the main issue with their insanely prolific release schedule, it's easy to get worn out on them and their sort of "gimmick" if you wanted to call it such.

bighubbabuddha
August 12th 2024


1295 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Mixing is terrible. Guitar tone is terrible. King Gizz worst output of the 20s

Pikazilla
August 12th 2024


31638 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

agreed

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 12th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Honestly, the mix sort of fits the vibe for me. Wouldn't really feel like a classic blues/country rock record if everything were crisp and clean imo

rufinthefury
August 12th 2024


4217 Comments


Polished mixes are shit

Pikazilla
August 12th 2024


31638 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

depends on the style the band is going for



but this is the worst king gizz album in a while

keaton_86
August 12th 2024


997 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

It's the worst since silver cord, which was the worst since... i dunno, KG and LW? which werent anywhere near as bad. Gilgamesh is a genuinely embarrassing song.

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
August 13th 2024


2118 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I guess I don't walk into a KG record expecting life-changing progressive music that's forward thinking with top notch production. I'm just expecting a fun record, something easy to vibe with, something catchy and sort of silly. It's the energy of this band that allows me to look past some of the technical flaws and cheesy lyrics.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 13th 2024


63232 Comments


for all its (many) flaws, the silver cord was their best album in a long while, so absolutely no surprises that they've dropped the ball again so soon

FowlKrietzsche
Contributing Reviewer
August 13th 2024


2298 Comments


I'm so excited to hate on this

bighubbabuddha
August 13th 2024


1295 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Lol excluding this, Silver Cord is by far their worst since Fishing For Fishies in 2019.

jrlikestodance
August 13th 2024


3442 Comments


Fishies rules m/. Stoked to jam this one

FowlKrietzsche
Contributing Reviewer
August 13th 2024


2298 Comments


Fishinggggg

for

fishiieeeeees



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