King Gizzard Have Just Dropped Their Third Album Of 2017

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard promised us five albums in 2017 and they are on track to fulfil that quota. 

The Melbourne outfit have today dropped their 11th studio album (and third for the year), Sketches Of Brunswick East.

The new LP is a collaboration with LA-based group Mild High Club, led by Alex Brettin, who began working with King Gizz after touring together overseas.

"I think we hit it off because our approaches are very different...yet similar," frontman Stu Mackenzie said.

"Alex has studied music, whereas my approach is to fling shit at the wall and see what sticks. I can’t read music at all. But we’re like the two ends of a horseshoe coming to meet in the middle.

"We always talked about working together and after Gizzfest last year I said to Alex ‘Why not stick around and make a record?’

"So he stayed at my house for three weeks and most days were spent in the studio making music with the rest of the guys. Jazz seeped into it, and we were listening to compilations of Ethiopian music form the 1960s and 70s a lot. It was in no way thought-out though.

"If Murder Of The Universe was our most conceptual and arranged album - then Sketches... is the exact opposite."

Meanwhile, King Gizz will return home in November for Gizzfest. More details are expected to be released soon.