PigsX7, we can say without a snort, would seem to have something broadly in common with the afore-praised Hey Colossus, if not Henry Blacker as well – something perhaps beyond sharing a country of origin. To avoid fainting, we’ll refer to the band from here on as PigsX7, who not long ago released their first (and so far, only) release, a split LP with The Cosmic Dead (more on them in a moment). Enter Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Be that as it may, occasionally what we need is a damned good whacking. Let sleeping dogs lie let “Hungry Dogs” split your skull in two. It’s a sound that rests somewhere between the moonlit sorrows of “Into the Pandemonium”-era Celtic Frost and being beaten bloody and senseless by The Moondogs. It’s a sound that rests somewhere between listening to Tank and getting run over by one. It’s a sound that rests somewhere between the earliest sounds of some stone-age queens and the kings of getting stoned. There’s an intensity to “Hungry Dogs …” that defies any cut-rate cultural comparisons we could possibly choke up. Eight of them in less than thirty minutes? We’re inclined to applaud. Herculean songs, brilliant songs, memorable songs. As a result, they’ve taken these riffs and – just imagine – formed them into songs. It would appear that Henry Blacker have found an endlessly streaming fountain of riffs – herculean riffs (you thought we’d say colossal, didn’t you?), brilliant riffs, memorable riffs. What’s not unclear is the intention of Henry Blacker: to blow our head clean off of our shoulders. Rumbling being the operative word here, in the form of the debut Henry Blacker album, “ Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings.” How can these hungry dogs have any dirty pudding, if they don’t eat their filthy meat? It remains unclear. Sometime shortly after our initial thrall over the colossal Hey Colossus album that led to last year’s dubious honor of being named “ Band of the Week,” we heard rumblings of sort of a Hey Colossus project undertaken under the unassuming name Henry Blacker. Revolt of the Apes is pleased, stoked and chuffed to support Austin Psych Fest 2014 through a series of interviews with many of the artists involved, answering the kind of ridiculous questions you’ve come to know and – maybe – love. It was a bit of a jam band at the beginning. It was just a joke, off-the-cuff type decision that wasn’t meant to be used more than a couple of times. The band was never supposed to play more than one or two shows so we didn’t think it mattered. What was on your minds when you made the decision to call yourselves King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard? Was the person who suggested the name laughing at the time, or were they dead serious? Is King Gizzard a reference to an actual person? Is the Lizard Wizard related in any way to the “lizard king”? I’ve been listening to “On The Beach” pretty much every day lately I even love modern-old-cooked-crazy Neil. The breadth of his work is pretty astounding and potentially wizard-like. Over the years I’ve slowly converted myself into a super-obsessed mega-fan, too. – whose talent you are in awe of to such a degree that you consider them to be perhaps wizard-like? What is it about what they do that is so appealing to you, and what is it about their technique or output that you find so confounding? With apologies to the Lovin’ Spoonful, do you believe in magic, how the music can free you, whenever it starts?Īs a kid my dad was obsessed with Neil Young and used to serenade me with “Old Man” and “Needle and the Damage Done” to get to sleep. Is there a certain musician – or artists, author, etc. Read the entire interview here, and look for the complete text to show up here in the very near future. Revolt of the Apes’ interview with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard is up now at the official Austin Psych Fest 2014 website.
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