I do legitimately think there's some filler here, but the bookends are just too insanely strong with "Head On / Pill" and "Float Along – Fill Your Lungs." Especially with the band expanding more and more into live improvisation, these two tracks will continue to take on new life over their career, which doesn't really happen with a lot of the other tracks here. A couple of the middle tracks like "Let Me Mend the Past" and "Mystery Jack" are solid in their own right, but the clear stars of the show are the aforementioned bookends, and they're good enough to buoy this album near the top tier of their work.

Reviewed on Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, 8:21am.

This honestly has no right to be as good as it is, even if it's ultimately very minor in King Gizzard's catalog. If the band didn't churn out albums at an astronomical rate, doing something this gimmicky would probably be way more of a waste of time, but it's kind of a fun blip on the radar as-is. Of their very early albums, this one is pretty solid, and really does stand out by way of the old western narration going on. The earlier albums of somewhat generic garage rock fare don't stand out like Eyes Like the Sky does in that context, so for that it's notable.

Reviewed on Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, 10:47am.