![]() But as the pandemic postponed those shows repeatedly, King Gizzard got frustrated with sitting on these tracks and released it as Made in Timeland earlier this year. For the intermissions between 90-minute sets, they created two songs, each exactly 15 minutes each. Way back in 2019, the band announced two shows at Red Rocks that would happen the next year, where each would feature three hour sets with no repeat songs across both. Laminated Denim is the second of those and has an interesting backstory. October is King Gizzard month, with the Australian band touring the hell out of North America and dropping three albums this month. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim (KGLW)Ĭreated as intermission music for their recent Red Rocks shows, King Gizzard create a compelling, wigged out countdown clock on their second of three October albums A record that earns its hour length with ease and rewards repeat listens, YTI⅃AƎЯ holds up a mirror to our world but lets us make our own decisions. “They come to watch the dog sleep." Callahan's songs are also poetic enough to take multiple, wildly different interpretations: is twangy closer "Last One at the Party" about Donald Trump or David Berman, or autobiographical? His warm, weathered baritone draws you in close, but he never tells you what to think. “The coyotes are getting bolder,” he sings on the wise, affecting "Coyotes" that seems to be about the US political climate. In someone else's hands, YTI⅃AƎЯ could be preachy but he's more like a play-by-play and color commentator all in one, shooting straight while backed by Emmett Kelly, Jim White, Matt Kinsey and Sarah Ann Phillips for one of the more lively, band-oriented albums he's made in some time. A songwriter known for sardonic, bleak humor, Bill is not exactly sunny here but more of a straight-shooter, seeing the world as it is (or as he sees it), but hoping for change or revolution. YTI⅃AƎЯ is an album about slowing down, unplugging, waking up, and looking at things with clear eyes, as Callahan faces fatherhood, mortality and an increasingly fractured, tech-reliant society. It IS sequenced for that particular purpose, though, in case anyone wants to." I'm not suggesting people must listen to this record all the way through in one sitting. You have to live that lifetime though in order to appreciate the hour. An hour is actually lovely, nothing, a lifetime. ![]() I fault ourselves for falling for the internet. ![]() "An hour sounds like a year to me these days. "Listening to this record takes one hour," Bill Callahan wrote in a letter announcing his wonderful new album YTI⅃AƎЯ. ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)īill Callahan holds a mirror up to the world on this politically minded but warm and inviting double album ![]()
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