How much synth could a lizard wizard synth if a lizard wizard could play a synth? Well, here’s your answer. ‘The Silver Cord’ is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s 25th album, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have new tricks up their billowing sleeves..
It’s best to think of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s mammoth discography in terms of genre experiments. Their more tonally-rigid collections tend to be the Melbourne band’s best, while their most genre-fluid albums (eg. 2022’s gigantic 'Omnium Gatherum') are their most scattershot and tiring..