DiamondJoyride

Good album, but vastly, vastly overrated.

They've got much better material than this.

This is quite possibly their most "This is King Gizzard?" album aside from Silver Cord.

I really like this album! It's such a fun take on lighthearted acoustic folk with some seriously darker tones present in the lyrics. That juxtaposition is what makes this album so fun, I think. Songs like NGRI (Bloodstain) & Bone are extremely upbeat sounding songs with lyrical topics including a murderer being not guilty by reason of insanity, and how our bodies will be nothing but ... read more

I first heard this record about a week or so after it first came out in 2019. I was 18 and just started college a few weeks prior, and my music taste was slowly beginning to morph into what it was today, largely psych-rock favored.

I don't think it's an exaggeration when I say that this album singlehandedly accelerated that shift in my music taste into what it is now. Even now, over six years to when I first heard it, this is still one of the most important albums in my ... read more

Work This Time is a strong contender for one of the band's best tracks. Soft, tender, and utterly unique in the sense that it's the only song in their entire catalogue that feels truly sad and melancholic. It really makes it stand out as a unique track.

The rest of the album is a smorgasbord of King Gizzard outtakes. Some of these tracks are also really great (Homeless Man In Adidas, & Sleepwalker, too), though some of them are kinda stinkers as well, and it really isn't too ... read more