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Welcome again to my little corner of the internet where I get to talk about records that I am listening to on a week by week basis! Hopefully I have encouraged you to buy or listen to a record that you may not have heard of. I know this is something that I look forward to weekly, being able to read about what my co-workers are listening to as well. My week has been pretty basic most days. I fill the online orders that come in and then I work on listing a massive metal CD collection that we got in a few weeks ago. So much good stuff has already been listed and we really have barely begun to scratch the surface of this collection. To give you some perspective on it, I have only gone through almost 2 full boxes and we have 50+ more boxes that need to be listed. So needless to say we will have a ton of awesome metal and extreme music adjacent CDs being listed for a while if that is your thing.
On to my pick this week. I went back and forth with a couple of newer releases that have been on my radar for a while. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard is not for everyone. Some people get turned off by the fact that they change their sound with every album. Spanning genres such as electronic, metal, folk and jazz funk. A lot of die hard fans have their favorite album out of the 26 studio albums that they have put out so far. Mine are the heavy and more psychedelic albums like Omnium Gatherum, Petro Dragonic... and Flying Microtonal Banana. The following this band has created in the states is something special. It almost feels like they are Australia’s answer to the Grateful Dead. People plan entire summers to follow them on tour in the United States. They even have parking lots sales before every show with folks making bootleg King Gizzard shirts, pins and stickers among so many other things. I will finally get to experience my first show at the end of month in Asheville. So if you are out there and you see me say hey!
The new KGLW album, Flight b741 is a snapshot back in time to older boogie rock, taking influence from bands like The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat or the Steve Miller Band. It’s classic dad rock but done with the King Gizzard twist. There are huge riffs and endless hooks on this album, which also features all members of the band on vocals at least once on the record, which is something new for them from the albums in the past. One of the big highlights for me was the amount of harmonica on this album. I am sucker for harmonica in my classic rock albums and Ambrose continuously just kills it every time. Overall, this album is a classic and will be a favorite of a lot of die hard fans. If you have never heard King Gizzard before, please go back and listen to the albums that I listed above. Until next week! Thanks for reading!