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Tracklist front / back album covers
1. "Rattlesnake" 7:48
2. "Melting" 5:27
3. "Open Water" 7:13
4. "Sleep Drifter" 4:44
5. "Billabong Valley" 3:34
6. "Anoxia" 3:04
7. "Doom City" 3:14
8. "Nuclear Fusion" 4:15
9. "Flying Microtonal Banana" 2:34
Total length: 41:53
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Band Members / Musicians
Michael Cavanagh – drum kit (tracks 1–8), bongos (tracks 3–5, 8, 9), percussion (track 9)
Cook Craig – microtonal guitar (tracks 1, 3, 7), microtonal bass guitar (tracks 4, 6)
Ambrose Kenny-Smith – microtonal harmonica (tracks 1, 4, 7–9), vocals (track 5)
Stu Mackenzie – microtonal guitar (tracks 1–8), microtonal bass guitar (tracks 2, 8), piano (tracks 1, 5, 9), synthesizer (tracks 2, 3, 8, 9), zurna (tracks 1, 3, 5–7, 9), vocals (tracks 1–4, 7, 8), percussion (tracks 1, 2, 3, 9)
Eric Moore – drum kit (tracks 1, 3), bongos (track 9)
Lucas Skinner – microtonal bass guitar (tracks 1–3, 7)
Joey Walker – microtonal guitar (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9), microtonal bass guitar (track 5), vocals (track 6)
Stu Mackenzie – recording
Jarvis Taveniere – mixing
Joe Carra – mastering
Jason Galea – artwork and layout
Flying Microtonal Banana (subtitled Explorations into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 1) is the 9th studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 24 February 2017 on Flightless Records in Australia, ATO Records in the United States, and Heavenly Recordings in the United Kingdom. It is the first of five albums released by the band in 2017 and their first exploration of microtonal music, utilising custom built instruments.
The album earned the band a nomination for Best Group at the ARIA Music Awards of 2017, losing to Gang of Youths for Go Farther in Lightness. The album peaked at number two on the ARIA charts (their first top-ten), and it is also the first album by the band to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at 170.
