KING GIZZARD & ... Sketches Of Brunswick East LP Vinyl NEW 2017

Sketches Of Brunswick East I
Countdown
D-Day
Tezeta
Cranes, Planes, Migranes
The Spider And Me
Sketches Of Brunswick East II
Dusk To Dawn On Lygon Street
The Book
A Journey To S(Hell)
Rolling Stoned
You Can Be Your Silhoutte
Sketches Of Brunswick East III

Just when you think you have King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard sussed they throw a curveball - in the wake of two albums released in 2017 already, including most recently the dystopian end-times concept album Murder of the Universe comes Sketches of Brunswick East, an entirely altered beast.

Australia’s finest and most productive rock band have done this before, of course. While the world was still reeling from their 2014 breakthrough psych-punk masterpiece I’m in Your Mind Fuzz (2014) they casually released 2015’s expectation-confounding Paper Mache Dream Balloon (2015), a pastoral, sun-drenched acid-folk album.

Sketches of Brunswick East is a collaboration between King Gizzard and Mild High Club, the Los Angeles based tripster troupe signed to Stones Throw Records and led by Alex Brettin - the two bands formed a strong friendship touring together throughout the USA, Europe and Australia. “We were listening to compilations of Ethiopian music from the 1960s and 70s a lot,” explained Stu Mackenzie about the making of the record. “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.”