“The Dripping Tap” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

"The Dripping Tap" arrived in 2022 as the lead single from Omnium Gatherum, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's 20th studio album, and at more than 18 minutes it's less a single than a road trip. The song goes back to the sessions for 2019's Fishing for Fishies, then sat on the shelf until the COVID-19 lockdowns lifted and the band could get back in a room together; they jammed it long and stitched the best stretches into the finished track.

Stu Mackenzie and Ambrose Kenny-Smith wrote it, and Mackenzie produced, recorded and mixed it himself. It's a motorik locomotive in drop D, with Mackenzie, Cook Craig and Joey Walker winding Mixolydian guitar lines over Michael Cavanagh's drums and Kenny-Smith's harmonica wailing on top, a Krautrock rave-up in the lineage of Can that Stereogum heard breaking into soulful bursts worthy of Hall & Oates.

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