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Butterfly 3000 is the work of a band with a million ideas and the skills to make them all work like a dream. In this case, a shiny, happy dream that leaves the sleeper feeling refreshed and at peace upon awakening.
90
The album is the absolute antithesis of the mindset the public have been feeling in recent times and translates to deliver almost as a remedy to the sour mood felt by so many music fans over the last 12 months.
80
Full of surprising innovations, it errs constantly between confusion and brilliance.
80
Rather than feeling like a jarring turn of direction for the Aussie rockers, these pop-oriented additions are a perfect pairing to their existing sound.
80
Purists who flinched when Tame Impala began to morph into a hairier Daft Punk may be similarly nonplussed by the sextet's turn toward blissed-out dance-rock, but everyone else will have a lot of fun.
80
All coalesces, near-inexplicably, as yet another excellent album.
75
Butterfly 3000 lands like a conceptual arrival point, and makes the band’s more elaborate—and relentless—career peaks that little bit more emphatic. Above all else, it’s a reminder that King Gizzard usually peak when wandering far beyond a clear-cut path.
70
You could call Butterfly 3000 the least King Gizzard album of their career — there is next-to-no distortion or guitar riff theatrics. Nevertheless, it's a refreshing departure from the psychedelic garage records the band has released in the past few years.
70
Butterfly 3000 is an inviting, welcoming, and deeply accessible album.
70
This gorgeous 10-track collection has а sunny sense of optimism, love and light that's a tonic for frazzled souls.
60
This formulaic approach lacks surprise – once you’re a few tracks in, you’ve heard it all. It might not be a total hot Gizz summer, but at least we’ve got a few extra bangers to bask in.
50
Butterfly 3000 barely scratches the surface of its more synth-centric direction.
50
Rather than bask in the endless potential of synthetic and acoustic instrumentation as one, the group often defaults to what’s comfortable, placing their efforts on complex acoustic rhythms that are fine by themselves, but neuter the effectiveness of their other tools.
20
Listening to Butterfly 3000 in sheer horror as the stellar band are about to put out their most questionable piece of work can be exasperating, but having to tell fans they’re about to be let down is worse.
my expectations for king gizzard and the lizard wizard are high and wide, yet i was completely shocked to hear their new endeavor ‘butterfly 3000’. i am taken aback by this album. this work is one of, if not the singular, most accessible album by king gizzard and the lizard wizard.
the surprise of ‘butterfly 3000’ brings one to a state of fascination. the group’s made the bold choice to not releasing any singles on gizz’s most poppy, single ready album. ... read more
this album is so incredibly slept on. its beautiful and fun and shows the band in some of their most creative and surprisingly proggy moments
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Track List
| 1 | Yours 4:35 | 82 |
| 2 | Shanghai 4:00 | 84 |
| 3 | Dreams 4:04 | 75 |
| 4 | Blue Morpho 3:50 | 76 |
| 5 | Interior People 5:15 | 83 |
| 6 | Catching Smoke 6:28 | 84 |
| 7 | 2.02 Killer Year 3:19 | 72 |
| 8 | Black Hot Soup 5:12 | 75 |
| 9 | Ya Love 4:15 | 71 |
| 10 | Butterfly 3000 2:51 | 79 |
Total Length: 43 minutes
Year End Lists
| #24 | / | SPIN |
| #40 | / | Double J |
| #47 | / | MondoSonoro |
| #72 | / | Under the Radar |
| / | AllMusic | |
| / | The Music | |
| / | Vinyl Me, Please |
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Added on: May 10, 2021