- Record Label: p(doom) records
- Release Date: Jun 13, 2025
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Jun 27, 2025Phantom Island is King Gizz at their best producing yet another album that can not only be heralded for its precision and progression, but for once again showing how to take a bundle of diverse ingredients and transform them into a cohesive, intriguing, and overall fun experience, while remaining introspective and exploratory.
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Jul 14, 2025With its strings, horns and woodwind corralled into transformative shapes by Brit orchestrator Chad Kelly, the result leaves behind its predecessor’s heads-down retro-rock for a more expansive, if introspective offering. [Aug 2025, p.104]
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 20, 2025Its 10 songs are bombastic, unabashed boogies, each one stacked with layer upon layer of symphonic volume. [Summer 2025, p.73]
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Jun 12, 2025It’s another reinvention from the prolific outfit, a joyous ten-track delight, just in time for (our) summer.
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Jun 11, 2025King Gizzard made sure every guest felt welcome without sacrificing their true range. While Phantom Island is a consistent and stadium-sized effort, each song feels like its own little universe of musical solace to get lost in.
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MojoJun 10, 2025A dense, cosmic country, limber astro-funk and psychedelic pop record, it might be KGATLW's finest to date. [Jul 2025, p.80]
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UncutJun 10, 2025The addition of Chad Kelly's orchestral arrangements to the band's initial recordings strikes decisive new ground. [Jul 2025, p.30]
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Jun 10, 2025Phantom Island is a mature reflection on grappling with success. Musically, King Gizzard may never step foot in the same stream twice, but it's clear they're here for each other wherever the current takes them.
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Jun 20, 2025Phantom Island is a beautiful album that occasionally misses the mark lyrically. The album’s big sound and intense optimism offer a lot of brightness to take in. But anyone listening to a band called King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard should not expect subtlety.
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Jun 17, 2025Phantom Island is freewheeling and ambitious, and mostly admirable for it. Pared back slightly, it might have been truly absorbing.