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8.0
93397
8.0 |
Uncut
Especially welcome is the turn toward Middle Eastern and North African sounds on "Anoxia" and the title track. Print edition only
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8.0
93475
8.0 |
Exclaim
These are musical busybodies, always gravitating towards another daft and delirious idea
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8.0
93484
8.0 |
All Music
As the first of five planned albums for 2017, Flying Microtonal Banana will be hard for them to top
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8.0
93498
8.0 |
Evening Standard
The Australian psych-rockers present ear-worm melodies in this audacious collection
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8.0
93554
8.0 |
DIY
Rich, imaginative, and more than a little strange
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8.0
94158
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Is there a modern band as prolific and inventive as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard?
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7.5
93578
7.5 |
The 405
King Gizzard are easy to forgive and fun to like, showing that it’s more than a record about reliving psychedelic music’s prototypes
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7.4
93567
7.4 |
Pitchfork
On this sprawling new album, the Australian psych-rock band hoists its freak flag a few inches higher up the pole. It flutters in a more gentle breeze
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7.2
93691
7.2 |
Gig Soup
‘Flying Microtonal Banana’ is equally as bonkers in musicality as its title suggests - yet its dynamic, ever-changing psychedelic rock certainly refreshes the industry palette
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7.0
93799
7.0 |
Beardfood
Some of their tricks we know by now, like one word choruses, but why change them if they work?
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7.0
93564
7.0 |
Crack
On Flying Microtonal Banana, their mix of experimentation, insatiably chugging rhythms, and classic psych screech-and-squawk, sounds so, so right
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7.0
93391
7.0 |
The Music
Despite the innovations, much of 'Flying Microtonal Banana' sounds exactly like the King Gizz we know
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7.0
95011
7.0 |
PopMatters
This is the invitation to allow King Gizzard to pull you in deeper, get you hooked, and show you something you haven’t seen before
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7.0
93649
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
When so many others seem to do nothing but rewrite the classics, the one song Gizz do have is both malleable and completely entertaining
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6.5
93413
6.5 |
Under The Radar
The band explored Eastern-influenced microtonal harmonies, but thankfully the record doesn't rely too heavily on replicating cultural sounds
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6.5
93618
6.5 |
Earbuddy
That same old Gizzard flavor you know and love now with a new tuning recipe!
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6.0
93558
6.0 |
The Observer
Their devotion to a singular brand of rock is laudable
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6.0
93490
6.0 |
The Guardian
King Gizzard are a band that promise more wackiness than they can deliver
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6.0
93385
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The stylistic variation is nothing new but the sheer breadth of compositional variety is
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6.0
93398
6.0 |
Mojo
Hypnotic channels occasionally, degrade into ruts, but more often this is a fabulous freakout. Print edition only
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6.0
93399
6.0 |
Q
Their gnarly jam band antics are wind-tunnel bracing. Print edition only
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5.8
93466
5.8 |
Pretty Much Amazing
There are some solid tracks here, but overall it suffers from a big what if. Perhaps instead of making five records this year, they should have made one?
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