The title, singer/guitarist Stu Mackenzie says, is “literally Latin for ‘a collection of miscellaneous people or things’” – a fitting name for Gizzard’s first-ever double album, and their boldest, most ambitious, most far-reaching release yet.
Conceived as a compendium of unreleased songs that had never found a home on previous Gizzard albums, the project snowballed, and soon the group were writing and recording new songs for the swiftly expanding album.
And while most King Gizzard albums are conceptual works, pursuing explicit themes and singular sounds, Omnium Gatherum is the sound of the group getting loose, running wild and following the muse wherever and whenever it takes them. “We decided, this is like our classic sprawling ‘double album’,” Mackenzie adds. “Our White Album, where anything goes.”
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK:
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Audrey Powne - 'Ballad 4027'
