King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard produce deafening, propulsive shredding that echoes from a villain’s dungeon in your Saturday morning cartoons. Throughout their career, the seven-piece outfit from Melbourne has imbued jazz, soul, surf, and metal into their distinct blend of psychedelia. While it’s tempting to pigeonhole them with all the other emerging garage rock revivalists, this band is entirely its own animal. A first listen to “Am I In Heaven?” and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is already distinguished from the rest. The mind bending song begins in a serene haze of jangly acoustic guitars and quickly descends into apocalyptic, adrenaline-fueled inferno. Check it out:
