![]() ![]() ![]() track “Honey”, and subsumed some notes of “Billabong Valley” itself before dripping into “O.N.E.”, which in turn borrowed a few notes from “Straws In The Wind”. “Sleep Drifter”, the oldest song of the night, was first served up as a tease within 2020 K.G. Omnium Gatherum‘s dreamy “The Garden Goblin” sparked amusing banter between the group’s members. Throughout the show, the band carried out its irreverent experimentation with swashbuckling certainty. This “jammy period,” in particular, is less of a new direction and more of a permission slip to lean into the momentum, and the manicured madness of the three 2022 tracks that opened the show- Omnium Gatherum‘s at once melodic and maddening “The Dripping Tap” and Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava‘s outlandish “Magma” and “Lava”-set a heavy, smoldering tone. Rather than shedding one skin in favor of another, this band-comprised of Mackenzie (vocals, guitars, more), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keys, more), Joey Walker (vocals, guitars, bass, more), Cook Craig (guitars, bass, piano, percussion, more), Lucas Harwood (bass, keys, percussion, vocals, more), and Michael Cavanagh (drums, percussion, vocals)-rides the remnants of each chapter into the next. That’s not to say that fans of King Gizzard’s heavier side didn’t have plenty to love on Friday. ![]() ![]() “It feels good.” Those feelings about this latest phase were on full display at Forest Hills Stadium: Of the eleven songs played during the band’s 90-minute set, nine did not yet exist when that first 2020 Kings Theater show was announced. When it came time to introduce the latest season of Giz-a five-album year marked by longer, looser, more experimental songwriting-the temperature had decidedly changed: “I think we’re entering into our ‘jammy period,” Mackenzie said when April’s Omnium Gatherum was released. … I think I just wanna make music all the time.” The famously prolific outfit never stands still for long, and the version that stepped on stage in Queens on Friday had already (re-)reinvented itself several times over three ensuing years and seven (yes, seven) new albums-and that doesn’t even count an eighth, Changes, due out next week.Īs Stu said of the change of pace on Rats’ Nest when the 2019 album was released, “I think what is important to me is that we keep ourselves interested, so this band is a highly selfish endeavor in that respect. Size and scale were not the only factors at play, either. By the time a revised 2022 tour materialized, the New York stop had ballooned to stadium size, with British experimental rockers Black Midi and tour regular Leah Senior tapped to open. In the interim, drummer Eric Moore stepped out of the band lineup and into the back office as the group’s manager and head of their Flightless Records label. That show, along with the rest of the band’s world tour, was punted and later canceled as the pandemic took hold. When King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced their next New York show, a Kings Theater play in April 2020, fans likely expected to see the revisiting-teenage- Rammstein-fandom version of the band. That album, the second of 2019 following the blues-inflected Fishing for Fishies, had marked a notable stylistic shift for the Stu Mackenzie-fronted band. Well, sort of…Ī lot has changed in the Gizzverse since the band last stopped in the Big Apple for a show at SummerStage in Central Park on August 28th, 2019, a few days after the release of their 15th album, the thrash metal-inspired Infest the Rats’ Nest. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on Friday fulfilled a New York City promise three years in the making with their debut performance at Forest Hills Stadium. ![]()
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