King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Quarters!

Each King Gizzard album introduces a new innovation to their music, inspiring a flabbergasted ‘woah’ from the acid-damaged psychedelic fan in all of us; be it the opening 15-minute song suite of I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, or how half of Float Along – Fill Your Lungs was dedicated to a single track.

This time, they’ve produced a four-song album, each song being ten minutes and ten seconds in length exactly. Only they’re not songs so much as extended, mid-tempo psych passages. The vintage production techniques employed on previous albums have been stepped up on Quarters!, which helps to give the album a sustained mood, but it also means the different sections blend together. Describing the individual songs is an arduous task – they all sound the same and do the same things. There’s none of the explosiveness of past peaks, but that’s only a disappointment if you were expecting such things. The Gizz don’t want to be easily pigeonholed, and Quarters! stands tall amongst their ever-increasing discography.

It’s a fully formed album, aiming for a more passive listening experience than past outings – one fit to put on next time you feel like re-enacting a Russ Meyer movie.