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The first thing that grabs you is that slightly bent, unsettled guitar sound. That comes from the band’s microtonal instruments, which allow notes between the standard notes used in most Western rock. The result is not exactly out of tune—it is more like the music is leaning sideways. It feels exotic, dreamy and faintly disorienting.
It sounds ancient and futuristic at the same time—like a desert caravan somehow discovered electric guitars, fuzz pedals and krautrock.
The jazz-like element is the comfort with notes that sound “wrong” until the ear adjusts. Monk did this harmonically and rhythmically: sharp dissonances, unexpected intervals, phrases that seemed to stumble sideways. King Gizzard gets a similar destabilizing effect through microtonality, using pitches between the standard Western notes. Both artists should be household names, but aren't.
