Episode 187: The King Gizzard & the Lizzard Wizard Discography, featuring Sammy Sanchez
It has been a hot minute since the last installment of a discography-series episode dropped, and I couldn't be happier than to share that I was able to convince Sammy Sanchez to join me for a breakdown of the King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard catalog.
Sammy and I go all the way back to Two Thousand and Twenty-Two, when I met him for the first time after having his awesome father, Cesar, sit down with me to talk music and life.
I've gotten to know Sammy via these (now five total) podcast conversations, and that lane of my life is richer for it.
In our initial conversation, we talked LCD Soundsystem, Pink Floyd, and Tom Waits. Our second installment peeked into the Tom Waits discography. We did a Beck episode, and a Radiohead episode, and now...it's Kay Gee & the Elle Double-you, baby!
How does one attempt to describe King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard? Well...they're an Australian rock band that has broken the mold of prolific studio recordings. In short, they formed in 2010, and have dropped 30 records in that span, and no, there are no typos in this sentence.
Thirty records!
Beyond that, you just have to see for yourself. They can get heavy. They sometimes journey. And -- from time to time -- they jam. Here's the collection (to the best of our knowledge):
Willoughby's Beach (2011)
12 Bar Bruise (2012)
Eyes Like the Sky (2013)
Float Along -- Fill Your Lungs (2013)
Oddments (2014)
I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
Quarters! (2015)
Papier Mache Dream Balloon (2015)
Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Flying Microtonal Banana (2017)
Murder of the Universe (2017)
Sketches of Brunswick East (2017)
Polygondwanaland (2017)
Gumboot Soup (2017)
Fishing for Fishies (2019)
Infest the Rats' Nest (2019)
Chunky Shrapnel (2020)
K.G. (2020)
L.W. (2021)
Butterfly 3000 (2021)
Butterfly 3001 (2022)
Ominium Gatherum (2022)
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava (2022)
Made in Timeland (2022)
Laminated Denim (2022)
Changes (2022)
Petro Dragonic Apocalypse (2023)
The Silver Cord (2023)
Flight b741 (2024)
Phantom Island (2025)
And there you have it. And in case you were curious, yes, that was exhausting to type and italicize. So, yes, I can imagine how you totally didn't read it at all.
Regardless, Sammy and I motored through the thing and did so (in my estimation) with some sense of efficiency; we didn't dawdle and we certainly didn't speed.
Needless, to say, I hope there's a way for some folks to find this conversation enjoyable, be they K.G. & the L.W. fans or not. It was certainly fun and rewarding to do it.
Many thanks to Sammy for his knowledge and his energy, and thank you to all of you that support the show.
Cheers.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio samples contained in this episode (or any other, for that matter). These particular selections are clips I poached from a tune called, "Packet Man," by Digital Underground. It can be found on their 1990 release, Sex Packets, and is available to us c/o Tommy Boy Music, LLC.