Released: 2024
Genres: Blues Rock, Southern Rock, Roots Rock, Boogie Rock
The Musiquarium’s Flight b741 Review Score: 7 out of 10
After going from progressive metal to electronic dance music in the previous year, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has once again gone in a polar opposite direction, this time with a southern rock flavour on Flight b741. Like their last album, the entire band is once again credited on every song, with vocals even being shared across every member, making for another fully collaborative, jam band album.
Mirage City starts the album off by introducing the bluesy, seventies rock riffs that will inherent the album, influenced by a southern Lynyrd Skynyrd / Allman Brothers Band style — this contrasts to the more ZZ Top sound of 2019’s boogie rock album, Fishing for Fishies. Unsurprisingly, the band is on fire, with their jam band tendencies growing stronger by the album. Some of the other guys aren’t as good of singers as Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith or Joey Walker, but this shared vocal approach mostly works within the context of the album.
Flight b741 isn’t the most memorable King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard album, nor is southern rock one of my favourite genres that they’ve taken on, and their spin on the genre may not be quite as exciting as what a band like Geese did on the previous year’s somewhat similar 3D Country, but it still respects it and never feels like anything less than a genuine attempt at capturing its essence.
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Written by Brett Nippard
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