King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard With Mild High Club - Sketches of Brunswick East (CD)

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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. "€œIt 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."