New King Gizzard Album 'Sketches of Brunswick East'

New Album
'Sketches of Brunswick East'
OUT NOWAvailable now digitally • Pre-order on vinyl/CD/cassette

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has surprise released their third album of 2017, Sketches of Brunswick East, a jazz and Tropicalia infused collaboration with Mild High Club. Download Now on MP3 - $10Download Now on Lossless FLAC - $12The album is available now for digital download, and you can now pre-order it on high fidelity 180-gram black vinyl, limited edition cassette, or CD. All physical pre-orders placed through the ATO shop will receive a free Gizzard Gator sticker, and orders will arrive before the album is available in record stores or other third-party retailers. All physical pre-orders come with aFREE Gizzard Gator sticker!
PRE-ORDER NOW Yellow Cassette - LIMITED TO 500
$8
PRE-ORDER NOW 180-Gram High Fidelity Black Vinyl
$25
PRE-ORDER NOW CD
$12
PRE-ORDER NOW Sketches Of Brunswick East is a soothing balm of a record; an aural salve to be tenderly applied to the world’s damaged collective psyche. It is a chance to show their sunny, playful side. Where previous albums have slipped down sonic worm-holes to explore distant galaxies, this one is an examination of (and homage to) the Melbourne suburb in which King Gizzard write and record in their own studio, and from where they run their planet- spanning psychedelic operation.“I think we hit it off because our approaches are very different...yet similar. We always talked about working together and after Gizzfest last year I said to Alex [Brettin, of Mild High Club] ‘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 from 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.”  - Stu Mackenzie, KGATLWThe title could be perceived as both a knowing nod towards Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain (whose fusion of American jazz, European classical and Spanish song structures gave us one of the 20th century’s most important albums), and the sketchy on-the-hop, improvised nature of its creation by these gnarly and feral Aussie dudes. It also sees the band further exploring the Tropicalia element only ever previously hinted at. Stu explains that a change of pace and tempo was necessary after “a concurrent period of productivity, a ball of energy and ideas”. Logistically, its creation saw the sifting through “piles of ideas” previously laid down during intense periods of creation that their frontman confesses he barely remembers having taken place. Truly this is impulsive music, sketches of time and place reworked and pieced together, akin to, says Stu “sampling-culture, in which old ideas are reshaped and suddenly things make sense. It was like we were continually jamming with ourselves.”King Gizzard On Tour This Fall9/23: Kalamazoo, MI @ Audiotree Music Festival9/24: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall9/25: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall9/26: Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom9/27: Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse9/28: New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks10/1: Dallas, TX @ Trees10/4: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre10/5: Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre10/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall10/7: Boise, ID @ Neurolux10/8: Portland, OR @ McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom10/9: Vancouver, BC CA @ Commodore Ballroom 10/10: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre 10/12: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore10/12-10/15: Joshua Tree, CA @ Desert Daze Festival11/25: Commonwealth Park, Canberra, ACT @ Spilt Milk Festival