King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup, album review

Onslaught

King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard continue to deliver up their onslaught of richly heavy and melodic and complex and simple music, where, for example, a track like The Last Oasis is sweetly melodic with echoing/distorted vocals merging in layers of in-and-out-of-focus instrumentation, xylophone/vibraphone nuggets added to the eclectic mix, and then All is Known is a rockier, oriental-esque, funked-up and wah-wahed driver, but just before these two and just after the preceding delightful mix, is the thrash-metal pastiche of The Great Chain of Being and its proto-bombastic lyrics:

The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being

I am a rock with eyes to the sky
I wait for my time to rise
I come to disturb the throne
Dropped by a woman worn a pocket in a coat
The great chain of being
Will fall to pieces in no time

The great chain of being
The great chain (chain) of being (of being)
The great chain (chain) of being (of being)
The great chain (chain) of being (of being)

I usurp the precious stones
I have come to take the throne
I transcend the natural flesh
I will lay your god to rest

The great chain of being
Will be un-linked to start again

The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being
The great chain of being

I see through your world's facade
I decide to punish your rock

The meteors pass by
I burn that goddamn church to the ground

I climb stairs to push you down
I climb chains to cut you down
I disrupt natural order
Rip that salty lamb to slaughter 

Wonderfully oblique in the mix.