King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: "You don't have to listen to sensible people if you don't want to"

"It was definitely a band that wasn't deliberately over ambitious," Stu Mackenzie reflects. From any other group, that statement would seem par for the course – but King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard aren't just any other group. Having released eight albums over the past five years, and stating they're to release a further five this year alone, ambition seems to come hand in hand with everything the Australian psych-rock septet do.

Rewind several months: after the release of their infinitely looping album ‘Nonagon Infinity', the group were understandably exhausted. "It was the hardest record that we've ever made – it was a brutal process," Stu admits. "It had to be very thought out and pieced together, more than anything we'd done before by a long way." Each track a continuation of the one preceding, refrains repeating and evolving as the record continues, the process that birthed ‘Nonagon Infinity' took a toll on the group.

Having created what they describe as "the heaviest record that we've ever made," the outfit found themselves in much need of some time for themselves. "After we'd made that record we thought, 'Let's just take a break for a second, let's just chill out'," Stu recalls. When the group is as prolific as this one, it's unsurprising to find out that the break didn't last long. "In chilling out for a while we might've got excited," Stu grins.