King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

Polygondwanaland is the twelfth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, released in November 2017.

Formed in Melbourne in 2010, by Ambrose Kenny Smith (vocals, harmonica, synthesizer), Cook Craig (guitar, bass guitar), Eric Moore (drums, percussion, theremin), Joey Walker (guitar, vocals), Lucas Skinner (bass guitar), Michael Cavanaugh (drums), and Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, flute). The band are noted for their energetic live performances and their prolific recording output, releasing thirteen albums since 2012.

The band's early work saw them primarily perform in a style that blended 1960s surf music, garage rock and psychedelic rock, however the band has since added acid rock and krautrock to its repertoire.

Polygondwanaland is the fourth of five albums that the band had planned to release in 2017, and follows Flying Microtonal Banana released in February 2017, Murder Of The Universe released in June 2017, and Sketches Of Brunswick East released in August 2017.

Polygondwanaland was not released by the band in any physical format via their record label at that time. The band uploaded the master tapes for the album (including a vinyl master) to the internet, for anyone to make their own copies of the album.

In late 2018 the album was officially released via their own record label Flightless Records on two coloured vinyl variants.

The album was well received by music critics and is another solid album, despite the quantum of new music released by the band in 2017. The album flows well and incorporates elements from their prior releases in 2017, a strong showing for the band.

The song “Crumbling Castle” was released as a single from the album, with a video clip uploaded to YouTube.

Pitchfork ranked the album #17 in their listing of the Top 20 albums for 2017.

This album is a 2021 repress on transparent green coloured vinyl, pressed in Australia via Zenith Records.