WAH-WAH squeals, rapid-fire ray-gun zapping, cosmic wave flangers and blues harp shrieking might make great diversions for rock musicians but rarely do they form the bedrock of a band.
Words: Noel Murphy
Not so with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the fantastically-named Anglesea outfit ramping its psychedelic garage rock to a new level and fresh home after shredding audiences from Iceland to New York in the process.
The members are gadget nuts. With three electric guitars putting a trove of FX to serious space-cadet use – on top of hard-driving rhythms, rock-solid riffs and catchy tunes – the results are startling.
And pretty damn captivating; like a ’60s Shadows-on-acid sound.
It all emanates from a casual, bedroom-recording MO; so relaxed the band’s work has been called “dirty and unashamedly sloppy”, “psychedelic warts and all”.
In a good way, of course.
Read more in the latest GC Magazine – out now.
