KING QUIZZARD AND THE CROSSWORD WIZARD FREE
The drew songs mostly through the five long-players they issued throughout an especially ambitious 2017.įriends of the Shepherd Help support Milwaukee's locally owned free weekly newspaper.īefore immersing the audience into what became a lengthy medley, the band elicited immediate cheers with “Rattlesnake,” arguably their track most ready for a sympathetic club remix. It didn’t take long for that tactic to give way largely to the group segueing seamlessly from one song to the next. Early on in their encore-free, 17-song set, Mackenzie called out the names of the songs he and his mates tore through. Some of those elements weren’t prominent at the Pabst as they are in the septet’s discography encompassing roughly 15 albums and EPs, but the band more than compensated with charisma and drive. Depending on the often dour and ominous subject of Mackenzie’s lyrics, which came through acutely Saturday via an especially clean vocal mix, wistful folk and the dramatic flair of film soundtracks are folded into the wizardly mélange. Rhythmic propulsion from drummer Michael Cavanagh and bassist Lucas Skinner can lend itself to a kind of non-synthetic cosmic disco and the skittery shuffle of drum and bass when not more gingerly applied for other sorts of aural explorations. Intermittent usage of reverb on their axes offers echoes of instrumental surf music. The overlap of psych and progressive thrash metal arrives courtesy of Mackenzie’s instrumental interplay with guitarists Cook Craig and Joey Walker.
The group’s psychedelia incorporates the entrancing elements of the complementary styles folded into their aural tapestries. Working within a realm that expands upon the sonically omnivorous potential of ’60s psychedelic rock may not get them immortalized in bronze, but it did, however, get them signed to Dave Matthews’ ATO Records and able to sell out theaters around the U.S. Over the past decade, guitarist/singer Mackenzie and his six fellow Australians have crafted a prolific artistic corpus on par with the complexity of the Romantic composers whose facsimiles take up the box seats at the Pabst.
But he had more of a point than it may have first seemed. Stu Mackenzie joked last Saturday about how the busts of Beethoven and Wagner were looking down on his band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Saturday night at The Pabst Theater.
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