Is the psych-rock scene a pretty tight community in Australia?

It kind of is at the moment. Not necessarily just psych-rock, but bands in general. There’s lots of really good music coming out, which is cool.

How did you guys get to know fellow Australian psych-rock band, Pond?

I know Jay [Watson] pretty well. He plays in Pond and Tame Impala too. We spent a lot of time together the past few years. When he moved to Melbourne he kind of reached out to us because he liked our music so we just started hanging out and jamming. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Gum, but that’s his project. I played drums for Gum and we did a little tour mainly around Victoria. So that was cool, and we got to know each other better that way. All those Pond dudes are awesome.

Could you ever foresee any future tour collaborations with them?

I’ll always try to hook up tours with Pond. It would be so fun. Yeah, I would love that. They were touring in the states at a very similar time we were and our dates crossed over a couple times so we got to hang out, which was really fun.

When it comes to songwriting does one of you tend to write most of the music and lyrics?

I guess that kind of changes, but traditionally I write most of it. There are songs here and there that are different. My role is kind of like creative director, overseeing the project. It’s very open, and that’s the way it kind of works best. If you asked me about any specific song I could tell you how it was created. The most common thing is I would have an idea for a song, and then I would show the guys, and we would jam it and record it. Or I would have an idea for a song, record it, and then we would play that.

Does everyone come in and write their own parts?

It sort of depends. Oddments was a record we did, and none of the songs have everyone on it whereas the latest record is everyone on every song, which is weird because we’ve never really done that before, but that’s the normal way to do it.

You guys put out a lot of vinyl, what sort of things have you been adding to make those records a bit different than a classic pressing?

We ended up with three different pressings for our new record. The one here has a glow in the dark sleeve. If you put it outside it charges, and if you look at in the dark it glows. It’s pretty crazy. Then the U.S. one is green on one side and white on the other, and the colors kind of mesh together. The Australian one is green and red splatter.

Do you think it’s important to keep vinyl alive?

Yeah, I put up everything we’ve ever recorded online in one convenient zip file on our page the other day and got yelled at, but I did that because I figure it’s good for people to have the music.

When will you be releasing your sixth album?

Early-mid next year hopefully. We recorded that in New York, and some of it we recorded on our first U.S. tour. We’ve been finishing it off on this tour doing vocals here and there. We did some recording in Brooklyn at Daptone which was mostly kind of soul stuff, but that was cool. We did everything to tape, experimenting with that sort of sound.

What can we expect from the new album?

Well, kind of talking about jam music, it’s super jammy. It’s probably the jammiest thing I’ve ever done. It’s super chill, some of the most chill stuff we’ve done as well. I don’t know how it will fully end up, but the songs are long and jammy, but simple. With Mind Fuzz the songs were sort of complicated and dense. This is simpler in a way, and more straightforward.

What’s your advice to young musicians out there?

Just do whatever you want because that’s kind of what we’ve done. We never really do anything we don’t want to do. Work hard on whatever it is you really like doing, and find people around you who like doing other things as well. Figure out a little team to do everything and have fun.

If King Gizzard had a mission what would you say it is?

Our mission is to see what happens. Just going with the flow, not worrying about to much, and having fun.

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