PetroDragonic Apocalypse: A Discourse of KGLW and the Beginning of Merciless Critique 

Parts of this video may come off as harsh. As much as I do carry the beliefs I express in my videos, these “reviews” are also just a fun outlet for expressing my feelings on music. I can get carried away with some of these notions, but that’s kind of the fun part. For this reason, I wanted to add an extra blurb here just to say that I love this band and the creatives involved with every project. And if you support this channel in any way- you’re also mega dope. Looking forward to the Silver Cord

Motor Spirit is probably my favourite song of the past few years, and overall I've listened to PDA through hundreds of times since its release - but I absolutely adore your suggestion of adding more Gila/KGLW-esque sound effects into the track mixing. Motor Spirit already feels like the soundtrack to a Mad Max film, so adding some super aggressive motor engines and stuff into that soundscape would be amazing.

Digital Matthew… can’t say I agree lad. Respect your take for sure though.

I'm certainly a PDA fanboy but I definitely agree with you, especially on the motifs. I think this was, like all their projects, pretty "experimental", but this being their second foray into metal had me expecting more. Not unlike how I felt about certain songs off of ITRN, I found myself feeling a little tired with certain 'tropes' of the band, namely the 'title of the song is in the track' bit. It's to the point where I can pick out the particular offenders. (Rattlesnake, Automation, Hot Water, Trapdoor, Ya Love, Gila Monster, Converge, Theia) It's sort of sad to see the band capitalizing off of the least creative aspect of their music, but I can't really blame them either. Their experimentation with different aspects of music seems to be at the forefront of this era of albums and it seems like everything else may have been downplayed somewhat. (although admittedly, I also think PDA is one of their tightest narrative albums) I would've loved the album to be a lot heavier and with some better motif-y connections to the prior heavy songs/albums, but. Alas, we get what the King Gizzard provides. I still really enjoyed the ride, despite this album not being their strongest. I thoroughly love Motor Spirit, Dragon, and Flamethrower. The rest can kinda suck eggs imo, though there is a really fun cover of Witchcraft out there.

cool ass video

I barely listen to this album especially the first half. The first half is way better live than in studio. I dont know whether its how its audio is mastered or some other thing i cant quite pick up but i feel like the music is dampened or something. It just falls short for getting me in the zone to enjoy it. Dragon is easily the best track on the album though. In the end, I believe this is kglw’s first miss for me and falls flat especially when compared to infest the rats nest which was just so much better in every way.

Definitely agree with your take, I've loved the album since it came out and listened to it religiously at this point, but despite being such a good album it still doesn't feel as satisfying as it should be given the themes paired with the genre of music. I definitely can't outright critique Gizzard's approach to songwriting, they're not a band who gives a fuck about how people want them to sound, but if the first half of the record was as hard hitting and meaningfully put together as the latter half, this would be a legendary album. Great album regardless, Gila Monster at a concert absolutely destroys.

I love the album but couldn't agree more. Whenever I listen to PDA nowadays I usually just start at witchcraft