O ver their mind-boggling 15-year, 27-album career, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have switched gears with the speed and abandon of a stunt driver in a Fast and Furious film. Can you even describe the six-piece as a psychedelic rock band any more?
Their music to date has encompassed metal, folk, jazz and dance music; they have experimented with dense concept records and microtonal tunings, and this year they’ve been touring both an orchestral show and a rave show, alongside residencies in European prisons and amphitheatres.
And in July, King Gizzard made their latest hairpin turn: removing all their music from Spotify , in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s €600m (A$1.06bn) investment in the AI military tech firm Helsing.
“We have done a lot of different things over the years, but somet