{"id":4303,"date":"2025-07-22T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:28:36","slug":"king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-phantom-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/music\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-phantom-island\/","title":{"rendered":"KING GIZZARD &amp; THE LIZARD WIZARD &#8211; PHANTOM ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist:\u00a0<strong>King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard<\/strong><br>Album:\u00a0<strong>Phantom Island<\/strong><br>Label:\u00a0<strong>KGLW<\/strong><br>Link:\u00a0<strong>kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com<\/strong><br>Style:\u00a0<strong>Pop\/Rock, Alternative &amp; Indie<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This Australian band started out in 2010 and released their first album in 2012. Since then, they have produced a discography whose profusion is matched only by its eclecticism. Between studio albums, concerts and compilations, they now have more than fifty LPs to their name. While maintaining an eye on progressive and psychedelic music, the artists move from jazz to rock, electro to heavy metal, folk to soul, all with great artistic success. This variation in styles, while not necessarily comfortable for the listener, makes them one of the most interesting bands of recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrated with a cover reminiscent of the work of M. C. Escher,&nbsp;<em>Phantom Island<\/em>&nbsp;is their first real foray into symphonic music. The tracks on this album have been rearranged by Chad Kelly, conductor and friend of Stu Mackenzie, the band&#8217;s leader. The first two tracks follow in the footsteps of the previous album with a profusion of sound, a touch of psychedelia and almost funk-like brass reminiscent of Frank Zappa. After a ballad with bucolic accents, the rest of the album moves towards pop-rock and even folk, strongly tinged with a psychedelia that cannot deny its kinship with 1970s pop culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combo had already accustomed us to their generous interweaving of instrumental lines. For this album, they have taken it a step further by adding a string and wind section. Still analog in essence, a dense sound is combined with additional resonances compared to the rest of the band&#8217;s output. However, despite fewer improvisational compositions, regular listeners won&#8217;t be thrown off, as the album retains the creative momentum characteristic of its artists. Acoustic instruments are rarely overshadowed by electric ones, and the lead vocals never take precedence over the accompaniment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prolific King Gizzard &#038; The Lizard Wizard complete their mind-boggling discography with the album Phantom Island, a mix of symphonic elements integrated into their psychedelic-tinged pop-rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[159,172,158],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alternative","tag-indie","tag-pop-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}