hypertension, 14x11”, 2023

thank you king gizzard and the lizard wizard for releasing such a good album on my birthday

this ones a two block print. i planned it out in procreate and transferred the key image to the block by stitching together two printed out sheets of paper and transferred it with red wax paper. then i carved out the key block, printed it onto a sheet of newsprint, transferred the ink of that onto a clean piece of linoleum and carved around it with the digital version as reference to make the gold layer block

i’ve had a lot of registration issues with this one so i only printed a few of these. or day i’ll get back to it as see what was up with the blocks

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[ID: a photo of a black and gold, vaguely art deco style linocut print being held up against a pink wall, the framed murlocs tour poster is visible in the background. the print depicts a clock face with a four pointed star in the center. the clock hands are set to about 7:24. there are three pairs of wings coming up from the top half of the star and the numbers on the clock face are visible over the wings. this is all contained in an arched rectangle with a double lined border. curved along the top of the arch on the inside is slightly curly text in all caps that reads "rotate anticlockwise" and along the bottom in three straight rows is text in the same font that reads "see through backward-facing eyes". there are symmetrical curls and teardrop shapes around the bottom text. at the top corners of the print are two triangles filling up the space left by the arch with the same teardrop shapes as before inside them. there is a stylized open eye with gold sclera at the top center of the print.]

TIMELAND -> SMOKE AND MIRRORS -> THE LAND BEFORE TIMELAND -> HYPERTENSION

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Laminated Denim (2022)

if amby doesn't rap on one of the albums they're releasing next month. sad

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - The Land Before Timeland

Laminated denim was not as good ace ice death planets etc… which is unfortunate because if they made more of the EDM sound from timeland I think it could’ve been great and better than timeland

Past? Illuminated

Evil? Stimulated

Future? Pixellated

Denim? Laminated

Laminated denim

omg happy birthday to the only album I give a shit about. I still listen to Hypertension almost every single day, sometimes several times, and if I'm not listening to it I'm probably thinking about it

my fuckin name on Twitter has been "Denim Laminator Extraordinaire" for almost a year straight now I LOVE YOU LAMINATED DENIM

laminated denim

is really good!!! it’s so vibing. i LOVE hypertension. the lyrics on both songs are really fun too!! it has the same sorta “low-key” vibe as timeland, and it really makes sense that both were created as intermission music... they’re both very chill and easy listening, which is fun :)

i also think it’s SO meaningful that they released both this AND timeland digitally after playing them at the red rocks festival!!! all the lore of timeland is about being caught up in stress and sadness about having to delay their live shows, and that’s what makes it cursed. but they’ve broken the curse! by finally playing at more amazing festivals! and by releasing denim, whose lyrics are certainly more joyous and lighthearted than timeland’s...

I have issues with that other user's creepy to wet spectrum of king gizzard albums so here's mine

hypertension is Really good

in the time since Everglow's last comeback, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have released 6 full length studio albums

Made In Timeland, march 2022

Omnium Gatherum, april 2022

Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava, october 2022

Laminated Denim, october 2022

Changes, october 2022

PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth And The Beginning of Merciless Damnation, june 2023

This just blew my mind

Made in timeland

Laminated denim

It’s an acronym 😱😱😱