Nonagon Infinity


Nonagon Infinity is the eighth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 29 April 2016 on ATO Records. The album is designed to play as an "infinite loop" where "the record can be played front-to-back-to-front-to-back and the sound won’t break."
The album "controversially" won Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2016, with some accusing the ARIA of miscategorizing Nonagon Infinity.
The album's opening track, "Robot Stop", briefly features use of microtonal tuning, a technique explored further on the band's follow-up, Flying Microtonal Banana. The phrase "nonagon infinity" is also referenced in the lyrics of "The Lord of Lightning" off 2017's Murder of the Universe.

Reception

Upon its release, Nonagon Infinity received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Writing for AllMusic, Tim Sendra claimed that the band's inventive sound made Nonagon Infinity "not only their best album yet, but maybe the best psych-metal-jazz-prog album ever". He also called the album "amazing prog-psych epic."
Director Edgar Wright has since cited the album as one of his favorite albums of all time, stating that "you could be forgiven for thinking you were hearing one long extended track, but my God does it rock."
Matthew Coakley of The Triangle called it a "mediocre" album and, musically, "a gritty, heavy, lo-fi garage rock aesthetic and created a 'never-ending loop' of an album where all the songs flow directly into one another."
Jamie McNamara of BeatRoute magazine called it "a rollicking, garage-rock epic."
In 2019, Nonagon Infinity ranked 2nd on Happy Mag list of "The 25 best psychedelic rock albums of the 2010s".

Track listing

Vinyl releases have tracks 1–4 on side A, and tracks 5–9 on side B.

Personnel

Credits for Nonagon Infinity adapted from liner notes.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Production