Isolated Tracks Episode 3: Honey by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard 

stu cheryl dynamic is so cute, good to see the queen back

I remember when Cheryl had to take a break last year because of cancer but she's looking so healthy now, I'm so happy for her :)

He looks like he's really comfortable and extremely uncomfortable at the same time

This vid is an absolute schooling in imperfection. 😂 Perfectionism is my biggest problem with making music and so this was sooo so refreshing and humbling to witness. Fun facts: -The acoustic guitar in this song was recorded with his iphone lol. -He uses mostly stock Ableton plugins. -He considers most of the recordings to be "really bad" but clearly it doesn't stop him from soldiering on lol. -The bass part was frankensteined together from takes from different bass guitars. -The vocal harmonies are just exact duplicates of the main vocal but pitched, he said he was probably meaning to sing it later but never got around to it. 😂 -He spent a day recording sounds/textures for the song but only used a handful of them, in the end deleted 20-30 of them and just used the simple ones. -The percussion/bongos/etc is finger drums on an iPad. I love it. This shows that it really is all about the song. You don't need to acquire every single plugin and edit a snare for 3 years. Get out of your own way and let it fly. It's about the process and having fun doing it

Stu is a modest, cool yet gracefully-awkward genius. Love his work.

As someone who loves to record music in my bedroom this stuff is so inspiring. To hear that my favorite band sometimes records with an iPhone is so refreshing, no snobbery at all. Basically anyone can record their own music with really basic tools so go do it!

“what are you nerds doin?”

I would love to see an isolated track of Crumbling Castle

"I'm an honorary member of the band" Cheryl Waters 2nd drummer confirmed

Please get Stu on to do more of these! Even an album breakdown would be great. This was a great idea.

This is probably the most energetic i’ve seen stu in an interview style setting

Couldn't have clicked faster when seeing King Gizz and KEXP

I don't know a thing about DAWs or music production, but I could easily watch one of these for every King Gizz track out there. It's so fascinating to see Stu in his element and be able to explore his/King Gizz's creative process.

Stu is such a sweetheart, honestly what a lovely and sincere man!

20:29: "there's a bunch here that I haven't used, sorry amby" did amby lose his harmonica privileges?

I always thought their music is 100% analog. It's really inspiring to see stu using mostly stock plugins in this song. Great Episode

I'll go to war for Sheryl Waters

king gizz is king of "you don't know its there until it isn't"

"The groove matters more than anything else". If only everyone understood this. I am so damn proud of these guys. They have lived my dream and destroyed conventional concepts and industry snobbery on how popular music should be. They aren't uber pop commercial but they will be remembered.

Stu seems like such a cool guy to hang out and have a couple of beers with.

I would love to see this for the entire nonagon infinity album

They have so many interesting sounds in their songs, I’d listen to Stu talk about this stuff all day if I could.

I’d love to hear all the versions with the previous lyrics. To see that progression would be really spectacular.

Bob Dylan and Stu MacKenzie - two living legends together

Holy ravioli is it satisfying to watch a master of their element passionately explain their magic

Stu "Eye contact" Mackenzie

love this new idea great to see a breakdown of one of the best psych bands out there songs: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Keep this up KEXP. Trying new things during this year

Such a great window into the creative process. KEXP is the best, as always.

Being a musician, engineer, and a fan of king gizz, this was awesome. Hoping for more stu in the future with this series.

this is great thank you so much for all your music sharing!

this is awesome and really inspiring with all the lofi recording. especially the story about cavs and the tap ipad drumming

I LOVE YOU KEXP, THANK YOU FOR THIS CONTENT .PLEASE KEEP THIS SERIES GOING

This is mad cool. Hope you guys do way more of these.

This is the one interview that I've seen with Stu where he doesn't look absolutely shitfaced. Great stuff

Man they’re so sick

this was awesome. can't believe how much of this was just simple iphone stuff! just makes me appreciate stu as a producer/composer even more

Great job, I'm impressed with all the layers;

This is the best music education resource I've come across to date

Duuudee, this is the show i wanted for a long time. I'm glad KEXP is doing this, I haven't listened too much of King Gizzard, but i loved watching his process. I did the iphone thing on some of mine once. Nobody noticed.

The trick around 24 minutes in about cutting then boosting before tape distortion is fiendishly clever, but I think what tickles me most about it is how similar it is to the way Dolby noise reduction works on real tapes. Absolutely brilliant!

I love this stuff so much! I get the same buzz from listening to demo versions of music too, especially Ty Segall's! Nothing inspires me more to make music. Thanks KEXP

So cool to see all those subtle layers and the stories behind creating them! Inspiring stuff!

such a great idea for content!!!! KEXP!!!! cant hold you down!

This is one of the coolest "how is was made" videos ever. Keep it up.

The subtleties on this are amazing, some stuff I would have never noticed. That and the low budget/improvised nature of a lot of the songs just make it so interesting sounding

Cheryl always warms my heart! Thank you KEXP

King gizzard has strangely, unexpectedly, turned into one of my favorite bands. Strange, powerful, genre concepts...... add ms waters? I’ll click

I would watch this for 24 hours non stop if you guys did it with more of Gizz their songs!🥰

I need many many more Gizz songs done this way. Especially Iron Lung

This was great! Let's see more of these Isolated Tracks from other artists, please.

Best show man. Let it run longer. Felt cutoff. Keep these up!

stus got the timeland wallpaper

Thanks for this! Awesome inspiring!

this is good shit I could watch a docu series on these

So rad, love Stu & Gizz so much. Amazing he'd share some of their creative process. Very inspiring

The thumbnail is amazing, fantastic video!

kexp should do one of these with John Dwyer of Osees

I love this. So simple and creative.

Thank you guys so mutch, it was an interesting auditive journey 😮

FANTASTIC! Bonus: I can peer into how Stu uses ableton for my own knowledge :-)

Amazing content dude. Looking forward for #4 and #5, #6, and so on!...

Seen Stu and Cheryl really puts a smile on my face :)

Please do more of these with Stu!!

14:25 Maybe the fuzz is is just in your mind?

timeland album cover background a year before it released

These are sooooooo cooool I really love the insight into the process. Do one with Idles please??

Is there going to be an episode with the OhSees? :0

I am praying that Stu does more of these, an album breakdown would be amazing

wish there was a video like this for each and every song they’ve ever recorded

"You'll notice the motif in my work to do things badly" Yeah... I haven't noticed that at all yet.

Please do more of these with King Gizzard, so much interesting material in their discography

Dude this Is amazing

Great show!

This is amazing!!

I love this stuff.

Man, I feel such a kinship with how Stu puts these tracks together. There’s nothing like getting some iphone grit or old cassette warble and hiss in something’. Just throw down ideas when the pan is hot and make it work.

I would love for these guys to do 2 sets live-one of super tight woven tracks from Rats Nest and Nonogon, and then a second set of improvisational jams built off from The River or Sleep Drifter or basically anything from Fishies. All their jamming on Chunky was SO GOOD and I wanna hear them just dive into it live

Thanks for the masterclass!

These Isolated tracks are so golden!

Happy to see Cheryl doing well!

Great ! I will share this with my daughter. She is studying a Bach of Music Tech. Great info on the breakdown of making a song.

Great stuff all round

This is just the best video ever.

Please keep this series going.

absolute gold, this boi is amazing, big fan here omg tkm stu macuarro

I could listen to deconstructed king gizzard all the time, it’s so much fun hearing those layers!

was most curious about gizzard drums, glad that's where they started haha

Man I wish they’d stream more of their sessions

This has been inspirational

I was so happy when I saw this in my recommended!

This is what I come to RU-vid for.

Genius 👍 love this track! And love the GizWiz!!

I Hope KEXP releases one with mr Demarco!!! would be insanely cool to see n hear his writing and recording process

It's so good the tracks

this was so cool

Absolute banger of a vid

I keep coming back to this when I'm mixing ;)

9:50 "Iphone Distortion" lol hahaha

please do this frequently

Is the first time i see this show and wow im mindblowing super buen video.