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Hello Sorry Staters! What a week! I hope everyone in the states had a good fourth even though our country is going to shit in front of our eyes. Here’s to drinking beers in the pool with friends! I have been holding off on writing about this record until I had it in hand. We unfortunately have not gotten our copies in just yet, but it has been on constant rotation since it came out. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard recently went on tour playing some amazing locations in the EU and streamed it all on YouTube to give the folks that couldn’t make it a sort of couch tour. It was absolutely amazing, seeing them play some rearranged older songs and even playing some older songs on their rolling synth table named “Nathan,” much like their album The Silver Cord. So This week my pick had to be the new album Phantom Island.
The album is very accessible for new listeners, much like Flight B741. Flight B741 took a few listens and to watch some live performances for me to really “get” the vibe of the record. You can tell the record was made around the same time and that these songs were the songs that might not have been filled out much, but the addition of the orchestra on the recording made it perfect. It’s like a full sounding, almost in your face experience when played loud, naturally. It is very much a jazz, soft rock and (dare I say) yacht rock vibe, but they do it in the best way possible. All members of the band have moments where they are allowed to shine when it comes to vocals. Which to me is always a breath of fresh air, having different vocals on different songs. It doesn’t make it sound like a different band, but just adds another level of musicianship to the record. These tracks will for sure play out well live when they start a jam with some of tracks. It’ll be really interesting to see what they do with these songs live. They have announced a few dates this summer playing with an orchestra in each city, which should be really amazing, especially if they incorporate some non Phantom Island tracks.
We are getting in a lot of really great collections at the store, so if you are local please come check us out! We are still listing a ton of CDs. At this point it seems as if we will have enough CDs to list for years to come, so please keep checking back. Lots of cool stuff in that collection. Some other notable favorites that we have got in recently that I have been listening to are the Slads/Sikm split 7” and the new Envy—All The Footprints... reissue. So until next week! Hope everyone gets a chance to go outside and enjoy the sun and go experience something new! Cheers!