Fishing for Fishies

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The idiosyncratic Australian band’s most streamlined album to date is risky only in that it is their first to be downright boring.

Do not doubt that King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard still know how to kick ass.

After taking a break from releasing new albums for over a year, the always entertaining, often brilliant King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard returned in 2019 with Fishing for Fishies, a blues-inspired recording that is their most accessible album since 2015's Paper Mâché Dream Balloon and a continuation of their deliriously warped exploration of the sonic cosmos.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard make records that can be described like Friends episodes: "The One With Microtonal Instruments"; "The One T...

If this is the barometer in 2019, then King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard continue to dole out a sonic weirdness that should have had them exiled from decent society years ago.

After a year-long "hiatus," King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard are back and stronger than ever, with their fourteenth album in half as many years.

The album fails to yield anything truly novel within the scope of blues-rock.