Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Nonagon Infinity, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's eighth studio album, arrived on 29 April 2016 through Flightless at home, ATO in America and Heavenly across Europe, and it's built as a loop that never ends. Nine songs run straight into each other, and the last one runs back into the first, so you can leave it spinning forever and never hear a gap.

The Melbourne band plays it at a flat-out gallop: garage rock turned psychedelic and heavy, guitars from Stu Mackenzie, Cook Craig and Joey Walker piling up, Ambrose Kenny-Smith's harmonica wailing, and Michael Cavanagh and Eric Moore double-drumming at full tilt. "Robot Stop" opens with a flicker of microtonal tuning they'd chase further on Flying Microtonal Banana. It was their breakthrough: their first top 20 album in Australia, Best Album at the 2016 Music Victoria Awards, and an ARIA for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album that some argued was the wrong category entirely.

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