King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Alien Metal [P(DOOM)]

Why you'll love it

Album number 28, and Gizzard have gone rave. It grew out of the band's live rave shows after Joey Walker introduced Stu Mackenzie to the Eurorack modular synth, which Mackenzie says "completely rewired my brain". Eight tracks of pounding electronics, led by "Level 5" and the title track.

This edition

• 28th studio album
• 8 tracks
• On the band's own p(doom) label

About the album

Mackenzie says they've "never scrapped so much material" as they did for this one, and it shows: Alien Metal is lean and relentless, from "Sapience" through "Superheavy, Supercritical" to "Atomic Collapse".

Twenty-eight albums in, the only predictable thing about King Gizzard is that they'll do something unpredictable. This time, bring glow sticks.

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Tracklist

1. Sapience
2. Alien Metal
3. Superheavy, Supercritical
4. Kill For The Steel
5. Level 5
6. Rapid Alpha Decay
7. Uqt
8. Atomic Collapse

On p(doom).