Mars for the Rich
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
"Mars for the Rich" is a complete tonal pivot — King Gizzard in their mellow, jazzed-out mode, this track coasting on brushed drums, soft organ washes, and acoustic guitar fingerpicking that feels like late-afternoon light coming through venetian blinds. It's from "Sketches of Brunswick East," their collaboration with Mild High Club, and it carries that project's distinctive blissed-out lethargy, a sound like someone pressing their cheek against a cool window on a warm day. The vocals are conversational, almost murmured, with a sardonic edge tucked inside the gentleness — the title itself delivers its satirical payload quietly, critiquing tech-billionaire escapism without raising its voice. There's a deliberate smallness to the production: nothing overreaches, nothing competes. It belongs to a particular strand of progressive psychedelia that finds strangeness in comfort rather than chaos. You'd put this on during a slow Sunday morning when you're reading something that makes you intermittently angry at the world but not enough to stand up — a meditation on late-capitalism absurdity served warm, like coffee going slightly cold.
slow
2010s
warm, hazy, blissed-out
Melbourne psychedelic jazz
Psychedelic Pop, Jazz-Pop. Psych Jazz. sardonic, dreamy. Opens in blissed-out lethargy and sustains a gentle satirical detachment throughout, delivering its critique of billionaire escapism without ever raising its voice.. energy 3. slow. danceability 3. valence 6. vocals: murmured male, conversational, sardonic edge tucked inside gentleness. production: brushed drums, soft organ washes, acoustic guitar fingerpicking, deliberately minimal arrangement. texture: warm, hazy, blissed-out. acousticness 7. era: 2010s. Melbourne psychedelic jazz. Slow Sunday morning reading something that makes you intermittently angry at the world but not enough to stand up.