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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 review | Album of the week
Channelling garage bands, Little Feat and more, the prolific Aussies pair nihilistic lyrics with 70s-style riffs in a darkly enjoyable romp
They’re fine pop songwriters – check 2015’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon if gentle, bossa nova-inflected folk is your thing – and fastidious producers, expanding their garage sound to encompass funk, jazz and dance music. The band’s latest record, Flight b741, is being framed as back-to-basics: “King Gizzard’s most accessible and fun album,” heralds a PR email, perhaps in an attempt to win back critics exhausted by the group’s prolific output. The rollicking feel of Flight b741 masks some of the band’s most plainly dark lyrics to date, exploring dissociation, suicidal ideation and global collapse in a casual, conversational style – it’s one of the most cheerful doomer records in recent memory.
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