Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
After mind fuzz and quarters i was starting to get over concept records. I wanted to make an album with a collection of short unrelated songs. I wanted to steer away from electric guitar music which i felt like we’d explored pretty heavily on the last couple. So paper-mache-dream-balloon, the concept-less concept album got a concept. No electric instruments. Just acoustic guitars, flute, double bass, fiddle, harmonica, drum kit, clarinet. what ever we could find really. we recorded it mostly in an empty shipping container on my parents farm in country victoria. it was all horses, emus and tim tams. Stu
The colours might be decidedly bright and day-glo, but not all is as groovy in the realm of Paper Mache Dream Balloon, rendering the album a satisfactorily juxtaposed proposition.
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, the seventh album by Australia's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, is an all-acoustic experiment…
It’s a record that should finally prove King Gizzard to be every bit as brilliant as their name is daft.
One of the most interesting aspects of Melbourne, Australia's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is how a seven-piece ensemble manages to produce such winning sounds by effortlessly employing restraint rather than overkill. And with Paper Mâché Dream Ba
Review of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album 'Paper Maché Dream Balloon', the full-length drops November 13th via ATO/Maple Music Recordings/Heavenly
King Gizzard abandon warp-speed fuzz-rock in favour of pastoral-psych pastiche on their latest album