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The first single from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s upcoming EP, Willoughby's Beach, 'Black Tooth' is two minutes and thirty seconds of music to rob banks to.

'Black Tooth' opens with a burst of machine gun guitars before replacing the fury with some old fashioned malice in the guise of a surf-slicked riff - but there ain't no pina coladas and high-titted broads in bikinis here friends - just broken boards jutting out of the sand and blood under the nails. Fuzz vocals and a deadly accurate percussive attack fill out the picture in lurid, dripping, neon-lit detail. Mixing the sex of The Velvet Underground, the interstellar wonder of the 13th Floor Elevators and the sheer hostility of The Monks and The Stooges.

Willoughby's Beach, the band's second EP, comes direct from the fevered mind of Stu Mackenzie and is filtered through the sensibilities of the seven-member King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard army. Committed live to tape in one sweat-soaked, adrenaline-fueled session at Paul Maybery's Fairfield warehouse the EP's intensity is as evident as it is addictive.

As for the live incarnation, a castrated, skeletal rendition of this brimming psych-pop just didn’t seem right. The solution: six, seven, sometimes eight garage-rock devotees jamming these concise gems into a sprawl that’s loose, driving, and bursting with jangly energy. These jams go from sparse, Grateful Dead-like segues where scrapes and harmonics bounce around the room to waves of loosely aligned frequencies and half the band hollering on the chorus.

To mark the imminent release of 'Black Tooth' King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will be bringing their warped blend of grinding surf sludge to select venues in the country's east.

http://cmmnppl.com/ Review

"So I made the last minute decision to go check out King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard as they launch their new EP Anglesea last Friday night. Good decision. The Grace band room was jam packed, hot & sweaty – which seems the natural habitat of King Gizzard. The show was wild and frenetic like Charlie Sheen on a Monday night. The Gizz had the whole room spazzing out to their psychedelic, surfcoast garage rock. Frontman Stu Mackenzie gives a no holds barred performance swollowing microphones, spilling blood over the audience and his fender and taking the show into the crowd whilst he let’s off random yelps and squeals. The rest of the band follow suite like a violent onstage orgy of sounds and instruments. The highlights were tracks from the EP they were launching that night, Eddie Cousin, Fried and Good to Me. I managed to pinch one of the EPs that they were selling for petrol money to get home and I must admit it’s bloody good. They capture the energy of the live show pretty well and it’s a home job too. This review is my payment as I felt guilty when the blonde chick in the front row who seemed to be the guardian of the treasured cds started giving me the stink eye for my opportunistic acquisition."

http://cmmnppl.com/events/its-an-iphone-camera-gig-review-king-gizzard-the-wizard-lizard/