• Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      … I want to have fun with the people, just you know, by interfacing it on my own terms, or to leave them alone otherwise. And the band is exploding overnight compared to their meager catalog, which, you know, good for them, but because I listened to 2 out of their 6 songs on youtube the logarithm thinks I’m obsessed with them. They are good and making a poppy version of a niche thing, go them. They aren’t King Lizard tier yet though.

      • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        King Gizzard is absurdly prolific so I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to compare other bands to them lol

        But yeah they were certainly my first thought for the ‘microtonal rock’ inspiration. But there were others like Secret Chiefs 3 experimenting with this stuff even back in the 90s.

      • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        I think they make good and original music, but yeah I’m not sure they can keep this up for too long. My feeling is they’ll do maybe another album and then go back to bar gigs in Quebec making experimental stuff.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          12 hours ago

          I dunno, they could go far. They’ve got an interesting sound and microtonal pop/rock western music (instead of avant garde classical/electronic, or music from cultures that have microtonal systems) is a fairly unexplored territory that can lead to them making lots of new songs for a good while.

          It’s just that they are a bit new to get ALL THIS attention. Social media algorithms seem to have latched on to the very hard.

          Which is why I want to participate if we can compensate with the sparse catalog with tangentially related music, otherwise it’s going to be really boring seeing photos from their tours doing the same songs over and over again, and see when actual news happen.