Sep 01 2025
4
No Lizard Wizard on spotify anymore? 🥺
Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2017
Album Summary
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Polygondwanaland is the twelfth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license, although the band allows their fans to make remixes. The band uploaded the master tapes online for anyone to freely use. The fourth of five albums released by the band in 2017, it was released on 17 November 2017. The album's title is a portmanteau of the words polygon and Gondwanaland. Polygondwanaland first appeared as a partial leak on the band's demos for the album. The leak was uploaded to SoundCloud in April 2017, but was soon taken down. As a result, news of the album was scarce and mostly involved rumours, one of which stated that it would be the last of the five albums released in 2017. olygondwanaland was generally well received by professional music critics upon its initial release. In a 4 out of 5 star review for AllMusic, writer Tim Sendra claimed "Hearing them incorporate all the different sonic flourishes they've employed in the past in pursuit of good songs and not some higher concept means the album may slip past unnoticed, but it will sound great to anyone not scared off by the lack of theatrics. Tracks like the spookily restrained "Searching," the rampaging "The Fourth Colour," the tribal "The Castle in the Air," or the thrumming title track are the work of a band in full command of their process and results."
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Sep 01 2025
3
One of their best
Sep 05 2025
5
If TOOL is too heavy for you. Listen to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Maybe they are even more inventive and a tat more psychedelic. But I see some parallels. Fantastic album
Sep 03 2025
4
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Crumbling castle, Horology, Tetrachromacy, Searching…
Sep 04 2025
4
A sprawling and groovy King Gizzard album, and one of the highlights of their ridiculously prolific 2017 run (this was the 4th of 5 albums they released that year, and their 12th overall since their debut in 2012) After dabbling with microtonal acid rock, blistering prog-metal, and jazz-inspired psych-pop on their previous 2017 releases, Polygondwanaland combines some elements of the three and as a result sounds the most comfortable and distinctly King Gizzard record of the lot - rather than King Gizzard’s version of a certain genre It kicks off with the epic Crumbling Castle, whose nearly 11 minute runtime absolutely flies by, and contains some other absolute bangers with Inner Cell, Horology, and the fuzzy prog of The Fourth Colour I don’t think it’s quite as consistent as the previous year’s Nonagon Infinity, as impressive and punchy as Infest the Rats Nest or Petrodragonic Apocalypse, or as fun as Fishing for Fishies or Paper Maché Dream Balloon - but its still a hell of a record and borders on top 5 Gizz territory
Sep 01 2025
3
This is rocky music that plays while you listen
Sep 03 2025
3
overall enjoyed but didn't engage me 2.6
Sep 04 2025
3
Did these guys remove all their music from Spotify? I'm not a huge fan but I've listened to them before, and they had a LOT of albums last time I checked. Problem is, without being able to hear it I have no idea what it'll be - every album is different with this band. Maybe I'll look on YouTube for a few songs from it. Listened to a song or two. Not bad. 3/5.