King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Fishing For Fishies

Blue and black "Oil Spill" vinyl pressing

The 14th album since their 2012 debut — and their first after the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 — Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. Pressed here on a blue and black "Oil Spill Edition" vinyl.

From the soft shuffle outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of "The Bird Song" (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of "Plastic Boogie" (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder's Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of "The Cruel Millennial" and "Real's Not Real" — it's a dizzying, dazzling display which addresses a number of pertinent environmental issues along the way.

"We tried to make a blues record," says frontman Stu Mackenzie. "A blues-boogie-shuffle-kinda-thing, but the songs kept fighting it - or maybe it was us fighting them. Ultimately though we let the songs guide us this time; we let them have their own personalities and forge their own path. Paths of light, paths of darkness. This is a collection of songs that went on wild journeys of transformation."

 

Side A

1. Fishing For Fishies

2. Boogieman Sam

3. The Bird Song

4. Plastic Boogie

5. The Cruel Millennial

Side B

1.Real's Not Real

2. This Thing

3. Acarine

4. Cyboogie

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