Quarters!

2015 studio album by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Quarters!

Studio album by

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Released| 1 May 2015 (2015-05-01)
Recorded|

* 29 May 2014 (track 2)
* 3 November 2014 (tracks 1, 3–4)
* 2 December 2014 (add.)

Studio|

* Ski lodge at Hunter Mountain, New York (track 2)
* Daptone, New York (tracks 1, 3–4)
* Apartment in London (add.)

Genre|

* Psychedelic pop
* psychedelic rock
* jazz-rock
* progressive rock

Length| 40:40
Label|

* Heavenly
* Flightless

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard chronology
| I'm in Your Mind Fuzz
(2014)  | Quarters!
(2015)  | Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
(2015)

|
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Singles from  Quarters!

1. "The River"
Released: 8 April 2015

Quarters! is the sixth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 1 May 2015[1] on Heavenly Records, peaking at No. 99 on the ARIA Charts.[2]

The album was nominated for Best Jazz Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2015, losing to Barney McAll for Mooroolbark.

## Background

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The album features four songs, each running for ten minutes and ten seconds[3] making each song a quarter of the album - hence the title. Drawing upon jazz-fusion and psychedelic rock, the album's more laid-back sound was described as "unlike anything they’ve released before" and as "an album more likely to get your head bobbing and hips shaking as opposed to losing footwear in a violent mosh".[1]

Stu Mackenzie described how the composition of the album came around in an interview in 2015:

> "I wanted to make a record where I didn’t have to yell, as well as exploring some longer, repetitive song structures.” Four tracks, four quarters, each one precisely 10:10 minutes long, each one an extended jam teeming with melodies, the occasional trickle of water, space funk, laughter like Pink Floyd and deliciously unfussy grooves. I also didn’t want to use any brutal guitar pedals or sing through blown-out guitar amps as I usually would."[4]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 68/100[5]
Review scores
Source| Rating
AllMusic| [6]
The Guardian| [7]

Upon its release, Quarters! received generally positive reviews by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable".[5]

Writing for The Guardian, Everett True claimed during the album that "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard unravel mysteries, perform magic, tease melodies out of intricately formed musical patterns and do it all with a face that would be straight except it’s taken too many mind-altering substances."[7]

## Music

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The album consists of four psychedelic pop songs, all running exactly ten minutes and ten seconds.[6] "The River" is a Traffic-style jazz-rock song with Santana-esque congas.[6] It is the second song by the band to feature an odd time signature, with the majority of the song in 5

Tim Sendra of AllMusic described the album as a "jazz-prog epic."[8] Mike Katzif of NPR described the album's music as "jazz-inflected prog rock."[9]

## Track listing

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Vinyl releases have tracks 1–2 on Side A, and tracks 3–4 on Side B.[10]

All tracks are written by Stu Mackenzie.

Quarters! track listingNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "The River"| 10:10
2.| "Infinite Rise"| 10:10
3.| "God Is in the Rhythm"| 10:10
4.| "Lonely Steel Sheet Flyer"| 10:10
Total length:| 40:40

## Personnel

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Credits for Quarters! adapted from liner notes.[11]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

* Michael Cavanagh – drums, conga
* Cook Craig – guitar
* Ambrose Kenny-Smith – harmonica, vocals
* Stu Mackenzie – vocals, guitar
* Eric Moore – drums, percussion
* Lucas Skinner – bass
* Joey Walker – guitar, bass

Production

* Stu Mackenzie – recording (track 2), additional recording, mixing
* Wayne Gordon – recording (tracks 1, 3, 4)
* Joe Carra – mastering
* Jason Galea – cover, layout, photo

## Charts

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Chart performance for Quarters! Chart (2015)  | Peak
position

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Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] | 99

## References

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1. ^ a b Weiley, Meaghan (30 April 2015). "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's 'Quarters!' Reviewed In Quarters". Tone Deaf. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
2. ^ a b Wallace, Ian (1 June 2015). "Week Commencing ~ 1st June 2015 ~ Issue #1318" (PDF). The ARIA Report (1318). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA): 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
3. ^ "King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard* - Quarters!". Discogs. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
4. ^ True, Everett (11 June 2015). "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: We should have started a taxi service". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
5. ^ a b "Reviews for Quarters! by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
6. ^ a b c Sendra, Tim. "Quarters! - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
7. ^ a b True, Everett (29 May 2015). "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Quarters! review – mind-altering musical patterns". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
8. ^ Sendra, Tim. "Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 April 2019. "In 2015 alone they released Quarters, a jazz-prog epic featuring four songs that were each exactly ten minutes long..."
9. ^ Katzif, Mike (21 April 2016). "Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, 'Nonagon Infinity'". NPR. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
10. ^ Quarters! at Discogs (list of releases)
11. ^ Track listing and credits as per liner notes for Quarters! album

## External links

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* Quarters! at Discogs (list of releases)

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* t
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

* Michael Cavanagh
* Cook Craig
* Lucas Harwood
* Ambrose Kenny-Smith
* Stu Mackenzie
* Joey Walker

* Eric Moore

Studio albums|

* 12 Bar Bruise
* Eyes Like the Sky (with Broderick Smith)
* Float Along – Fill Your Lungs
* Oddments
* I'm in Your Mind Fuzz
* Quarters!
* Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
* Nonagon Infinity
* Flying Microtonal Banana
* Murder of the Universe (with Leah Senior)
* Sketches of Brunswick East (with Mild High Club)
* Polygondwanaland
* Gumboot Soup
* Fishing for Fishies
* Infest the Rats' Nest
* K.G.
* L.W.
* Butterfly 3000
* Made in Timeland
* Omnium Gatherum
* Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
* Laminated Denim
* Changes
* PetroDragonic Apocalypse
* The Silver Cord
* Flight b741
* Phantom Island

EPs|

* Anglesea
* Willoughby's Beach
* Satanic Slumber Party (with Tropical Fuck Storm)

Singles|

* "Hey There / Ants & Bats"
* "Vegemite"
* "Cellophane / The Wholly Ghost"
* "Gamma Knife"
* "Rattlesnake"
* "All Is Known"
* "Beginner's Luck"
* "Greenhouse Heat Death"
* "The Last Oasis"
* "Cyboogie"
* "Planet B"
* "Some of Us"
* "The Dripping Tap"
* "Gila Monster / Witchcraft"
* "Phantom Island"
* "Deadstick"
* "Grow Wings and Fly"

Live albums|

| Bootleg|

* Live at Levitation '14
* Live at Levitation '16
* Live in Paris '19
* Live in Adelaide '19
* Live in Brussels '19
* Live in Asheville '19
* Live In London '19
* Live in Melbourne '21
* Live in Sydney '21
* Live at Red Rocks '22
* Live In Chicago '23

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Official|

* Chunky Shrapnel
* Live in San Francisco '16

Compilations|

* Demos Vol. 1 + Vol. 2
* Teenage Gizzard
* Demos Vol. 3 + Vol. 4
* Demos Vol. 5 + Vol. 6
* Demos Vol. 7 + Vol. 8

Concert tours|

* U.S. Residency Tour
* World Tour 2024
* European Residency Tour
* Phantom Island Tour
* EU/UK 2025
* Phantom Island Australia Tour

Films|

* Chunky Shrapnel

Related articles|

* Discography
* Songs
* Flightless
* The Murlocs
* Heavy Moss
* Atolls
* Love Migrate

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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