Nonagon Infinity | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 4 November 2017 - 10:31pm

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Artist:

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

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Nationality:

Australia

Year:

2 016

Release-year:

0000

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Track-listing:

Robot Stop*Big Fig Wasp*Gamma Knife*People-Vultures*Mr.Beat*Evil Death Roll*Invisible Face*Wah Wah*Road Train

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

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m_75

Now-num:

2 017

Spotify-URL:

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Short-title:

nonagon

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u_13

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

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Wikipedia-URL:

Nonagon_Infinity

Spotify-link-type:

album

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nonagon-infinity/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard

Discogs-URL:

King-Gizzard-And-The-Lizard-Wizard-Nonagon-Infinity/master/992310

Allmusic-URL:

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King-Gizzard-The-Lizard-Wizard/Nonagon-Infinity

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Pure psychedelic mayhem

The circular nature of this album means you can just put it on and it keeps playing forever. Great! This band are good at taking a concept from the past (typically late 60s and 70s) and giving it a modern, improved, take. Very clever for such a young bunch.
72

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Gizzard of Oz

4-9

1-2

It sounds impressive that they’ve gone on to turn out loads of other albums in all sorts of other styles over a short period of time but I’ll have to judge them on what’s on this one. It’s a bit of a full-on, chugg-chugg sound – everyone playing at full kilter on every bar of every song. There are pretty much zero dynamics through the album, and hardly any change in pace, so it does require you to be in the right frame of mind to put up with this. The one time they do drop back the pervassive full-on drive is on Mr Beat, that does feel like a real breather before they head off in full riffy / crash and bash mode again.

After quite a few plays I did actually get into this album, but I can’t help feeling a bit more care in filtering / re-structuring some bits and this could have really gone on to be something great. Maybe they thought that goes against the free spirit of this. Road Train has a proper dirty Mötorhead sound, I thought this was a great one and ended the album on a high. But plenty of good stuff before that in a vaguely Hawkwind / Super Furry Animals / Klaxons sort of vibe.
60

reviewed by

Martin Lewis

Help let me off.

3-5

Stop. Let me get off I cried when first listening to this album. It wouldn't let me. Round and round, on and on. The big boys spinning the Roundabout. Relentless and Frenetic. No break.

I'll have to listen to this in chunks. Let me wait for a break. But there was no chink of one.

I'll get to the end of the album and then have a rest but the CD player on my wife's car was set to repeat and track 9 went straight to track 1 without me knowing. Oh I recognise this one. It's starting to grow on me a little. Then a little more. But you have to be in the right mood.

I actually liked the repetition in Mr Beat and Gamma Knife was fun. Some parts reminded me of Yes.- Closer to the Edge and other parts of an odd mix of King Crimson and Rammstein. It grew on me but probably not enough.