King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Website: http://www.facebook.com/kinggizzardandthelizardwiz
Hear one too many jangly, polite homages to Dick Dale and Deltones and you may agree: too many of the nouveau surf-rock brigade deliver on the surf but forget about the rock.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, however, are cavernous and ragged. Seven man reverb-tank choirs. Guitars echoing out into the red. Bursts of spastic lead fuzz. The result is jarring, schizophrenic: that mellow buzz you get from the inexplicable familiarity of 50s pop churned up in a mess of squealing theremin and wailing harmonica. Anglesea punks King Gizzard take a well known formula, fuzz it out, crank it up and make it seem, well, reptilian.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's debut ep, Anglesea, is out now.
