This March, mighty Melbourne seven piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released the “brilliantly uninhibited” Oddmentstheir fourth album in two years.

Today, the band confirm their unofficial status as one of Australia’s most prolific bands with news that they have not just one, but two new albums in the pipeline.

Having just wrapped up the first leg of their virgin tour of the US and Canada, backed by $50,000 in prize money, and confirming an extension to their overseas tour plans (more on that later), the rest of the band’s international plans include holing up in a lodge in New York’s Catskill Mountains for a month-long ‘writing sabbatical’.

That session will go towards “what will actually become their 6th LP scheduled for release in early 2015,” because according to a press release from King Gizzard’s label buddies Remote Control, the sequel to Oddments is nearing completion.

“Fans of the band will be happy to hear that their 5th LP is almost finished and will be completed at Daptone in Brooklyn later this month and will be unleashed on the world in the late months of 2014.” Making it the band’s fifth new release in under two years.

Oddments arrived just over six months after 2013’s Float Along, Fill Your Lungs (the 6th best Aussie LP of 2013 according to Tone Deaf readers) and just over one year after the Spaghetti western, spoken-word odyssey Eyes Like The Sky – also in 2013.

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The good news arrives as King Gizzard drop their latest music video for ‘Hot Wax’, an animated trip that’s probably their most psychedelic yet (and for a band whose last clip featured singing slices of vegemite toast, that’s saying something).

The video sees director Jason Galea bringing his free-morphing, cartoonish album artwork for Oddments to life on film, as singers Stu Mackenzie and harmonica-toting Ambrose Kenny-Smith have their faces melted in a kaleidoscopic parade of animation and datamoshing.

Or as Galea himself puts it, “a hallucinative purgatory dungeon controlled by an evil overlord through time, space and wax;” the perfect visual accompaniment to the band’s ‘Surfin Safari’-quoting fuzz-rock.

King Gizzard’s current American campaign has seen them play Austin Psych FestCanadian Music Week, and win new fans over with a run of 12 performances over the US East Coast. The band recently announced extra US dates, including a residency at Brooklyn’s Baby Alright venue in June and a slot at Northside Festival.

The group will then return home in July before taking off again later this year for a European Tour in November, coinciding with their scheduled appearance at Iceland’s Airwaves Festival.

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