![]() That’s always been the broader legend surrounding Gizzard that they’re a psych-rock collective with such a fervour for DIY you’ll just as easily find them with a Stanley knife gritted between their teeth as a guitar in their hands. There’s not much too it, a handful of stud walls covered in carpet tiles, rugs on the ground and a makeshift wall of office dividers that distinguishes the control room from the live room. When he arrived back home in Brunswick East, he invited me into drummer Eric Moore’s Flightless Records’ headquarters, where King Gizzard have fashioned a studio out of the remainder of the first floor tenancy. I finally tracked down lead singer and head Gizzard, Stu Mackenzie, for a chat while he was hiking the mountains of Utah as a bit of R ’n’ R before a non-stop 30-day tour of the US. Prince was prolific these guys are dropping more tasty treats than Hansel and Gretel. Rumour has it, there might be four Gizzard albums released in 2017. In the four years since my almost encounter, the band has released a whopping eight albums! The latest is Nonagon Infinity, which may or may not be their latest release by the time this goes to print. I mustn’t be a very good tracker, because King Gizzard’s breadcrumb trail is a non-stop buffet. It’s the perfect Gizzard nest, with enough room to sprawl out across the defunct textile factory floor. The closest I’ve come to cornering the seven-headed beast was a routine studio tour of Paul Maybury’s Secret Location Sound Recorders, where the Gizz had been holed up the week before. ![]() I’ve been tracking King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard since early 2012. ![]()
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