Released: 2016

Genres: Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Psych, Garage Rock, Krautrock

The Musiquarium’s Nonagon Infinity Review Score: 10 out of 10

Named after a nine-sided die, which represents the nine songs on the album that can be played on an infinite loop, Nonagon Infinity has the prolific Australian septet perfecting their jazzy neo-psychedelic krautrock sound that they were already honing-in on with the stellar I’m in Your Mind Fuzz just two years prior.

Robot Stop starts the album off abruptly, wasting no time to get things started, it also makes use of microtonal tunings (i.e. the notes between notes), something that is more commonly found in eastern music. The next three songs, Big Fig Wasp, Gamma Knife, and People-Vultures don’t let up the momentum at all, with the adrenaline still pumping at full cardiac speed.

Mr. Beat allows for the album to chill-out for a bit, before Evil Death Roll kicks things back into fifth gear. Invisible Face has this groovy psychedelic jazz section in the middle, and Wah Wah has Stu Mackenzie singing onomatopoeia. The closing track Road Train channels the pummelling speedy blues of Motörhead.

Like their previous releases, Nonagon Infinity has a raw production style that sounds as if it were recorded live inside of a garage, but in an age of maximalist production, it’s admittedly quite nice to have something that sounds so meat n’ potatoes, allowing for a focus on the songwriting itself.

Nonagon Infinity is without a doubt King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s best and most definitive album yet, with a cohesive concept and sound, and guitar riffs galore.

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Written by Brett Nippard