At the end of last year, the Australian psych-rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard made a grand and absurd pronouncement: They would release five brand-new studio albums during the 2017 calendar year. They might still pull it off. As I'm writing this, King Gizzard now have a month and a half to come out with another album. Polygondwanaland, their fourth of the year, is out in the world now, released as a free download on the band's website. This stunt has its precedents. Once upon a time, bands used to crank out new albums at ridiculous rates. The Beatles released six albums between 1963 and 1965. Creedence Clearwater Revival released five in 1968 and 1969 alone. In 2009, Gucci Mane released two studio albums and eight mixtapes. So it can be done. But for a psych-rock band in 2017, King Gizzard's four-to-date albums still amount to a herculean feat -- partly because of the sheer volume of music, and partly because each album has its own sense of character.
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Album Of The Week: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland
