King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Since 2010 · Australia

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Nonagon Infinity (2016)

Nonagon Infinity runs as a single unbroken loop, each of its nine songs crashing directly into the next with no gap, until the album's final track feeds seamlessly back into its opening. "Robot Stop" kicks the cycle off at full speed, a driving garage-rock riff and Stu Mackenzie's urgent vocal setting a pace the rest of the record never lets up. The structural conceit could easily have been a gimmick, but the songwriting underneath is tight enough to sustain it. It stands as one of the purest distillations of King Gizzard's restless, high-concept energy in a discography defined by restlessness.

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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Nonagon Infinity · 2016

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard formed in Melbourne around Stu Mackenzie, building a reputation for restless genre-hopping and an unusually prolific release schedule across a catalog that has touched garage rock, microtonal experimentation, thrash metal, and jazz-inflected psychedelia without settling on any single identity. Mackenzie has cited a wide range of touchstones across the band's records — the Band, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival among them for the group's more Americana-leaning work — alongside an acknowledged debt to heavy metal that several members say fundamentally shaped how they think about music, even where the band's own sound rarely stays in that register for long.

Nonagon Infinity (2016) distilled the band's relentless energy into a single continuous loop of songs, each track running directly into the next with no pause, so that the album's ending flows seamlessly back into its own beginning. The record became one of the clearest statements of the band's structural ambition, treating the album format itself as a compositional constraint to be pushed against, and it remains one of the releases most closely associated with the band's identity as musicians interested in concept and form as much as sound.