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Paper Mache Dream Balloon

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Paper Mache Dream Balloon

Album number seven from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Heavenly
UK Release date
13/11/2015
US Release date
13/11/2015
  1. 10.0 |   Art Rocker

    This record is their best work yet, and, with hindsight, absolutely a risk worth taking
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    There can't have been a better 1968 record in 2015. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   State

    An uncompromising piece of work from a band not concerned with following trends or popular styles
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  4. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It all makes for a loveably quaint and intriguingly skewiff album, at odds with its first impressions: a record to be heard rather than seen
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Mellow, defuzzed psychedelia
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  6. 8.0 |   The Music

    An inspired entry in what's developing into one of the most diverse and least predictable catalogues of modern times
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  7. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    This record is bucolic and bright, cheery, idyllic and fun without being too cheesy
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  8. 8.0 |   DIY

    It’s a record that should finally prove King Gizzard to be every bit as brilliant as their name is daft
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  9. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s a lot of fun, for band and listener both (not always the easiest of tricks) – a ‘concept-less concept album’ shot through with just enough self-aware humour
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  10. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    They have things down to a psych-pop/rock science
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  11. 7.0 |   All Music

    Paper Mâché Dream Balloon is about as straight as King Gizzard are ever likely to be, and it still totally works thanks to the high level of songcraft and their innate weirdness
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  12. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    These are obviously a pastiche of something or other, but try drawing a specific lineage of influences and you're doomed to draw a blank
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  13. 7.0 |   Clash

    A ray of light for the coming winter months
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

    A fine line between the serious and the seductively strange. Print edition only

  15. 4.0 |   Q

    There's little here to give psych-rock peers any sleepless nights. Print edition only


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