Surprise! King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Just Dropped A New Album

Happy Friday, folks: Melbourne psychedelic outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have just dropped a brand new album called Sketches of Brunswick East with absolutely zero warning.

The album — the band’s eleventh studio release — is a collaboration with fellow Melbourne act Mild High Club.

Believe it or not, it’s the third album from King Gizz this year, following the release of Flying Microtonal Banana in February and Murder Of The Universe in June. It won’t be their last, either — they’re promising to release two more before 2017 is through.

King Gizzard frontman Stu Mackenzie told Pitchfork the concept behind Sketches of Brunswick East was all about finding beauty in their backyard.

“We’re always walking up and down the street all the time,” said Mackenzie. “Going to get coffee, lugging amps, just constantly wandering Lygon Street… seeing the terrain change as new apartment buildings are erected, watching the cranes build bigger cranes. In that respect, perhaps it represents greater changes that are happening in the wider world, and this is our attempt to find beauty within a place that we spend so much time.”

Stream Sketches of Brunswick East in full, below — and watch the band livestream the record on their Facebook here.