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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
This album is the distillation of everything that the band are great at and, as always, done purely on their own terms.
90
This is a band, ten years into their career, still at the height of their powers, rejuvenated and ready to show the world that you still can’t second-guess them.
80
Aussie cosmonauts King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard hit melodious peak with freakouts and chill-outs on Omnium Gatherum.
80
Over 16 tracks it is a ceaselessly unpredictable yet exploratory listen.
73
Dusting off practice-room staples and writing more new songs to go with them, the hyper-prolific Aussie rockers scrap their conceptual inclinations in favor of shredding for the sheer pleasure of it.
70
Across each of their unique experiments over the years, the band have always been consistently interesting, and here on their twentieth album, they offer a reminder of all they are capable of, and prove they’ve still got a lot more gas left in the tank yet.
70
For longtime fans, it’s incredible to consider how far this group of oddball Aussies have come as musicians since releasing their noisy, rough around the edges debut in 2012. Twenty albums in and they’re still full of ideas. That’s worth celebrating
60
Instead of favouring one sound, the Kings adopt an all-bases pitch, hurtling from cosmic dreampop (Magenta Mountain) and astral-jazz wig-outs (Kepler 22b) to death-metal (Gaia), hip-hop (Sadie Sorceress), politicised acid-rock (Evilest Man) and off-world lounge-funk (Ambergris) with vigour.
60
Omnium Gatherum functions as a nice, if rather uneven, retrospective on what makes King Gizz such a force in rock music today.
50
Omnium Gatherum’s crumbles under its inability to surprise, leaving us with the sound of a band with nowhere left to go.
50
It's the first truly disappointing album that the band have released and the first where they sound like they are running out of gas instead of hitting on all cylinders.
The sight of seeing this have a hip hop secondary on RYM will forever plague my nightmares and haunt my home
EDIT: After hearing the album, I am further upset by the existence of Gizzard hip hop tracks.
16 tracks, 1 hour 20 minutes long
Be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking that this album will somehow be boring or drag on. This album flows so well, always finding ways to surprise and amuse. Full of energy and magic. This is King Gizzard's Gumboot Soup 2. Omnium Gatherum.
A review of this album by Loud and Quiet states that "Omnium Gatherum’s crumbles under its inability to surprise, leaving us with the sound of a band with nowhere left to go." That is both untrue ... read more
The overall experience of this album feels greater than the sum of it's parts
Though it has an overall theme, this album isn't a concept album. It is about how the world is slowly being destroyed by many different forces. Sometimes this comes off as a bit corny in execution, but overall, I had a really good time. The album is surprisingly consistent, and rarely drags on
It's a good starting point for someone looking to get into the band, but they've done all of these sounds better on other albums
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Track List
| 1 | The Dripping Tap 18:17 | 94 |
| 2 | Magenta Mountain 6:04 | 88 |
| 3 | Kepler-22b 3:12 | 87 |
| 4 | Gaia 5:11 | 83 |
| 5 | Ambergris 4:27 | 82 |
| 6 | Sadie Sorceress 3:07 | 80 |
| 7 | Evilest Man 7:38 | 85 |
| 8 | The Garden Goblin 2:56 | 77 |
| 9 | Blame It On The Weather 2:31 | 75 |
| 10 | Persistence 3:47 | 79 |
| 11 | The Grim Reaper 3:05 | 81 |
| 12 | Presumptuous 4:53 | 84 |
| 13 | Predator X 3:45 | 79 |
| 14 | Red Smoke 4:21 | 81 |
| 15 | Candles 4:34 | 83 |
| 16 | The Funeral 2:23 | 77 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Year End Lists
| #5 | / | Louder Than War |
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Added on: March 8, 2022