Genre is a useful tool for categorization and a terrible tool for understanding. Scizzorman seem to know this instinctively. Their new concept album, “How To Get Your Life Right With What’s Left,” is a seven-track excursion that refuses to stay in any one lane. It is funk. It is glam. It is psychedelia. It is stoner rock. It is swamp blues and trip ambience and retro funk. It is all of these things and none of them. It is, above all, a Scizzorman album.
The Australian outfit formed in late 2024 after a post-pandemic hiatus and a case of writer’s block. Perhaps it was that period of creative stagnation that led them to embrace such a restless approach. The songs on “How To Get Your Life Right With What’s Left” emerged as a strange and colourful collection of observations, anecdotes, and existential detours. They are not content to repeat themselves. Each track introduces new textures, new rhythms, new moods. Yet somehow, the album coheres. It holds together. It makes sense.
The chemistry between drummer and vocalist Terry J Vinci, bassist Cody Robson, and guitarist and synthesist Stewart Herbertson is undeniable. Vinci’s outrageous lyrics collide with Robson’s slick, smooth bass and Herbertson’s vibrant guitar and synthesizer work. Their distinct vocal parts add another layer to a sound that is already dense with ideas. The album’s astonishing mix was shaped by seasoned sound engineer Adrian Vinci, whose work ensures that even the most chaotic moments feel purposeful. This is a band that knows what it is doing, even when it is doing everything at once.
With influences spanning Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Zappa, Arctic Monkeys, Talking Heads, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Dandy Warhols, and Jimi Hendrix, Scizzorman have created something distinctly their own. “How To Get Your Life Right With What’s Left” is short, very sweet, and designed to dislodge the present tense. It is an album that invites listeners to embrace the unpredictable, question the obvious, and perhaps discover a few new values along the way. For anyone tired of music that plays it safe, this is a welcome disruption.
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