- Record Label: Heavenly
- Release Date: Jun 23, 2017
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Jun 23, 2017Prepare for all the fiery guitar solos, vocal howls and whoops, and the ever-present double-drummer attack and honking harmonica you could ever need. Overall, Murder of the Universe is an audacious, wild masterwork by a band who can never rest.
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Jul 10, 2017While its episodic narrative veers off into realms of absurdity akin to standalone send-ups, it proves--especially after a repeated listen--a fun, texturally dense celebration of the possible, a showcase of real daring that has been the payoff of countless prog odysseys of yore, the perfectly bonkers lineage of which it so clearly stems.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2017It doesn't hold back on the lysergic craziness. [Aug 2017, p.106]
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Jun 29, 2017Murder of the Universe may be built from the band’s now-familiar krautpunk battle plan, but their ability to execute outsized architectural complexity at manic, warp-speed velocity is no less astonishing.
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Jun 23, 2017An ambitious project, King Gizzard succeed into enticing you into fully absorbing yourself into their wild, bizarre universe.
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UncutJun 20, 2017A concept piece about man's downfall and a planet in ruins, versed in three chapters and dominated by the kind of skull-splitting metal that marked 2014's I'm In Your Mind Fuzz. [Jul 2017, p.32]
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Jun 20, 2017An intense, ingenious and utterly insane listen, Murder Of The Universe is another brilliant addition to King Gizzard's already stellar and ever-expanding discography.
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Jun 20, 2017The Tale Of The Altered Beast: Part 1. A New World could have easily sat on Blake’s New Jerusalem before the guys drag it into highspeed psychedelic punk insanity.
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Jun 23, 2017Murder is hellishly dark, terminally weird and subsequently very funny.
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Jun 20, 2017With the songs segueing from one to another, neither the mood nor the message are ever in doubt. That’s fortuitous; despite its ample stock of songs--21 to be exact--the album still clocks in at just under 45 minutes.
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Jun 22, 2017There are still some fun snippets of doom psych in this chapter and on the whole, the album is a nice diversion for King Gizzard, though it's not very adventurous or experimental; it's mostly fun, but a little predictable.
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Jun 21, 2017In between almost every track the calming voice of an unnamed narrator tells us a bit more of the fantasy. Such a pompous, and quite frankly pretentious, idea shouldn’t work, but the sheer chaos of the group’s music wrapped around each piece of spoken word makes everything flow beautifully, somehow.
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Jun 26, 2017This record’s three parts, separated by the gender of the narrator and little else, are muscular, repetitive, exhausting pieces of psych-math riffs that hardly let up. They make me feel like I’m stuck on an endless dancefloor, forced to nod my head into eternity.
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Jun 21, 2017Apologists will see it as a paranoic update of the doom-rock blueprint laid down by King Crimson and Amon Düül. Anyone else will be reaching for the paracetamol.
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Jun 23, 2017Overall this record requires a huge narrative commitment, with the payoff of a vomit coffin. Not worth it.
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Positive: 50 out of 60
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Mixed: 7 out of 60
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Negative: 3 out of 60
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Jul 10, 2017
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Jun 23, 2017
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Sep 12, 2022this album is rediculous. the spoken word, insaine synth, and firey guitar solos make for an absurd lovecraftian roller coaster.