They didn’t cook the books by dropping a 30-minute improv jam or cobbling together a bunch of acoustic song sketches and calling it an album. The remarkable thing about King Gizzard’s 2017 isn’t just that they managed to release five records-it’s that not a moment of them felt half-assed. Whether they were scrambling to make the deadline or were just withholding the new record until the last possible moment for dramatic effect, the photo finish felt just right for a wildly unpredictable band that always seems to be flying by the seat of its cut-off shorts, yet always manages to get the job done. On December 31, the Australian psych-rock collective finally fulfilled their long-standing promise to release five new albums in 2017, surreptitiously making Gumboot Soup available on their Bandcamp page hours before the year came to a close. If anyone had reason to celebrate this past New Year’s Eve, it was King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
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