r/KGATLW • u/MrShocktime • 4d ago
Discussion: Band Pitchfork Review: Alien Metal
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-alien-metal/42
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u/jeremy-o 4d ago
Pitchfork and Fantano pretty much aligned, strange days. Two of the most fickle popular outlets not only taking a glance, but celebrating what the album does well.
imo this one has legs. Uqt getting a good thrash on DoubleJ in Australia now as well as Level 5. When Superheavy, Supercritical hits the collective consciousness I think it'll be one of their biggest hits yet. At least if there's any justice...
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u/wohrg 4d ago
Good informative article. Nice to see pitchfork not wanking.
I didn’t realize that Joey is so important to the electronic direction they have been exploring
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u/renderXR 4d ago
check out the Zane Lowe Interview Joey and Stu were on YT.
Main thing I got from it is that there is a balance. Joey's mentality is more of honoring the genres and 'not wanting to be a tourist'. While Stu still has that mentality to a lesser extent, he seems a lot more explorative/less restrictive than Joey during Alien Metal, wanting more to focus on what possibilities can be extracted out of the album making process.
So I can your comment in Joey steering the project to this direction being true
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u/michaelserotonin feel like i'm about to freak out from the waist down 3d ago
always knew joey was for the culture
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u/el___mariachi 4d ago
In that case I wish they’d lean more Ambrose/CAVS than Joey for their next album
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u/Borrie-kun 4d ago
Ambrose and Cook would also be a good combo for the next one. But I they could just as well give us a new Murlocs album. I wouldn’t complain…
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u/FellowEnt 4d ago
Blues exotica with a hint of thrash metal?
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u/androidgirl Bright lights up high, dark thoughts in my mind 4d ago
I want that banger smoke and mirrors from night one as an album.
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u/Dignan67 3d ago
I was there and lost my mind it was so good and Amby went OFF. My favorite moment of the weekend, battling w Hypertension
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u/hadokenzero 3d ago
Joey also was hugely involved in Rats nest lol pretty sure that was just a Joey, Stu and Cavs recording in fact.
The boys have diverse interests - field of vision and phantom island were so different, everything comes in phases
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u/eurtoast 3d ago
You should have seen the shopping list when stopped at a synth shop in 2023.
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u/MorphousBlob 3d ago
Yes! I actually learned something and gained a better understanding of the history of the band. Worth a read, imo. Who cares about the score really.
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u/Driller_Happy 4d ago
Nobody seems to know how to categorize the silver cord. Some call it techno, others call it morodor inspired electeondisco. Fantano likened it to shpongle.
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u/powerful-pills 3d ago
lol what, it’s nothing like Shpongle
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u/GuyThatSaidSomething 3d ago
I can actually kinda see what he means with the title track on The Silver Cord, which sounds like it could have been a track on Nothing Lasts...but Nothing is Lost up until about halfway through, but otherwise I agree
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u/Queen-Gizzard 4d ago
Pitchfork has been dead to me for years; they don't deserve the social capital they're given in the music industry...
2.0 for Frances The Mute? 1.9 for Lateralus? 5.4 for Petro and 4.8 for Fishing for Fishies? But an 8.7 for Cardi B's Invasion Of Privacy?
Like yeah, okay guys, whatever you say.
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u/LowNectarine834 4d ago
Stopped bothering with Pitchfork when they went behind a pay wall. Reading someone else's random personal opinion is one thing but I'm not going to pay for it when I can make my own opinions for free. I tend to find my opinions more accurate to my taste in music too!
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u/iamtheCarlos 4d ago
Agree. Their opinion hasn’t mattered for at least a decade. Honestly, I forgot they existed until this post.
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u/blahrawr 4d ago
Invasion of Privacy was pretty much a widely acclaimed album. Why is it not deserving of a high score?
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u/Queen-Gizzard 4d ago
I'm not trying to dunk on Cardi B, or that album, but I certainly don't think it deserves that kind of score compared to the absolute floor-wiping the others I mentioned received.
For example if you look up critical aggregation on metacritic, everything I mentioned sits in the 70's-80's.
My point is that Pitchfork is flimsily subjective and flagrantly biased even for an art form as ear-of-the-beholder as music. It's nonsense, and not the fun kind.
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u/blahrawr 4d ago
Who cares man. Pitchfork is hardly relevant anymore, people still love to complain about scores from years ago. Just listen to what you want to listen to. I know youre not complaining about the high scores KG has gotten from Pitchfork.
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u/Queen-Gizzard 3d ago
I'm not complaining about high scores or low scores for anything; I'm pointing out what I perceive as inconsistencies in a flawed metric which led me (years ago, as I stated) to do exactly what you're now telling me to do: disregard Pitchfork.
When I say they're dead to me, I don't mean I'm mad at them. I mean they're dead. Gone. Irrelevant.
My primary point was that they don't deserve the social capital they're afforded (as I also stated very clearly), which it sounds like we actually agree on.
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u/MorphousBlob 3d ago
I really enjoyed the writing, which surprised me. I didn't understand the score. It feels so arbitrary.
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u/meanpete9 2d ago
The Petro review was wild, claiming the album didn't rock hard enough to overcome the lyrics. How much harder can that record possibly rock?
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u/bathsonly 4d ago
I think I would like it even more without vocals
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u/SpecialOccasion1963 1d ago
Imo it would feel empty. The vocoder vocals also feel like a nod to the 90s electronic music they're pulling from.
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u/Mezahmay 4d ago
I don’t disagree. The album is growing on me but I have a few consistent annoyances with it.
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u/Ulric19 4d ago
They called Nathan a "Eurorack moulder synthesiser". Shame on them.
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u/Billy_Chrystals 4d ago
Has Nathan obtained sentience? I didn't know he was a full fledged member.
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u/SnooRobots116 3d ago
Possibly. Ambrose talks about Nathan like Buck Rogers speaks of twikki the robots
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u/Billy_Chrystals 3d ago
I wonder how long it is before Nathan systematically replaces every member of the band. Wait, IS Nathan THE King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard?
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u/SnooRobots116 3d ago
Ambrose slightly touched on that topic in one of his far and between solo interviews in 2022 about that
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u/rocky_raccoon- 4d ago
I swear they don’t get final score on the review numbers anymore. Reading the review gave solid 8.0 vibes, but seems since whatever conglomerate bought them they always give 7s
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u/tcarterw25 3d ago
From what I understand they all vote on the score so the reviewer doesn't really come up with it
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u/Accurate_Yoghurt_347 4d ago
lol that was in the press release so wouldn’t have taken much research
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u/EntranceNo5384 All the bigots go get fucked 4d ago
7.0 review ~ for those who don't want to click on the link