{"id":3475,"date":"2015-06-11T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:08:30","slug":"king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard &#038; The Lizard Wizard <br>Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/king_gizzard-quarters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3477\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/king_gizzard-quarters.jpg\" alt=\"King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard, Quarters\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/king_gizzard-quarters.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/king_gizzard-quarters-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Cloaking their output in a black-lit, by-the-power-of-Grey-Skull aesthetic, Australian ensemble King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard set the bar fairly high for themselves in terms of delivering beyond the surface level bells and whistles of psychedelic music. And though the band\u2019s propulsive, chooglin\u2019 space rock certainly doesn\u2019t come out of leftfield\u2014having both obvious predecessors as well as contemporaries who beat them to the punch\u2014they\u2019ve more over or less delivered over the course of their relatively brief existence.<\/p>\n<p>On 2014\u2019s <i>I\u2019m in Your Mind Fuzz<\/i>, the band offered a molten psychedelic maelstrom that was kept in check by the kind of precision that marks American bands such as Wooden Shjips or Thee Oh-Sees. (Comparisons to the latter shouldn\u2019t be too surprising given that Oh-Sees frontman John Dwyer\u2019s Castle Face label is the band\u2019s American home.) Yet despite a respectable grasp on their chosen style and a commendable level of consistency, one could easily imagine King Gizzard\u2019s at times heavy-handed acid rock wearing thin, owing in no small part to the fact that they\u2019re producing records at a Dwyer-like clip. That\u2019s one of the reasons why the band\u2019s four-song EP, <i>Quarters<\/i>, comes as such as pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Clocking in at more than 40 minutes, with each track a precise 10 minutes and 10 seconds, <i>Quarters<\/i> finds King Gizzard pumping the breaks on their relentless space trucking, slowing down the groove, and opening up a bit. If previous releases revealed the band channeling their inner Hawkwind, <i>Quarters<\/i> evokes the steady rolling psychedelic experience of, say, Quicksilver Messenger Service. And at its most supremely toasted, the album can even recall the kind of absent-minded nonchalance of David Crosby\u2019s <i>If I Could Only Remember My Name<\/i>\u2014if that album were recorded under the supervision of Dave Fridmann and Kid Millions. Throughout <i>Quarters<\/i>, undulating guitar licks skitter across drums that point to the jazzier moments of krautrock\u2019s eternal beat, while warped keyboards and all manner of synthetic sounds and samples push the songs to sun-kissed pinnacles. There are heavily treated vocals, and they\u2019re an essential aspect of the overall effect, but they\u2019re merely one single part of a whole and are given no more attention in the mix than any other instrument. Which is fine, because even when the lyrics are intelligible they offer the kind of \u201cwow brah\u201d revelations that become less intriguing as the drugs wear off. But let\u2019s not quibble.<\/p>\n<p>For all of King Gizzard\u2019s retro psychedelic trappings, their sound is very much rooted in contemporary music culture. That said, it\u2019s tough to avoid using the dreaded \u201cJ word\u201d when describing a band that plays the kind of stuff found on <i>Quarters<\/i>. But perhaps we\u2019re far enough moved from the heyday of that unfortunate final gasp of hippie excess to go ahead and label King Gizzard just that\u00ad: a jam band. 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