Archive for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s ‘Deadstick’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 07/05/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Fun fact: With 27 LPs and three EPs under their belt, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are close to matching the number of felony convictions on Trump’s “record”—pun very much intended. Read my Treble review of their latest album, Phantom Island.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s ‘Phantom Island’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 06/13/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard exhibit a growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians on Phantom Island, resulting in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor. Read my FLOOD review here.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s ‘Deadstick’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Reviews with tags on 04/20/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

On their new single “Deadstick,” the six, surely attention deficit-afflicted Aussie oddballs known as King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard abandon all pretense of psych, garage and progressive rock, instead giving a big, warm hug to soul music. Read my short review on Treble.