Trivia / King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

• Bury Your Art: The band's 2011 debut EP Angelesa was out of print for a long while, with Stu Mackenzie saying on the band's website that he considers it "fake" and non-canon. It wouldn't return to print until 2020, when it and various pre-2011 songs were included on the Bandcamp-exclusive Teenage Gizzard compilation.
• Creator Backlash: The Anglesea EP, which Stu describes as, "...a weird one to write about. I don't consider it cannon (sic). Don't listen to it — it's fake". Hence why it never got re-released anywhere until the 2020 Teenage Gizzard compilation.
• Creator-Driven Successor: The band openly described Laminated Denim as a spiritual successor to Made in Timeland. Both are thirty minute albums consisting of two fifteen minute tracks built around a consistent, ticking, 60 BPM, with time as a thematic element, whose titles are anagrams. However, while Timeland is a nearly entirely instrumental mix of world music, electronic, and a bit of rap, Denim takes a motorik, polyrhythmic, krautrock form, with more vocals and guitars, though some electronic elements are still present. The recording process for each other also contrast, with Timeland being mostly individually recorded bits that Stu later mixed together as coherent tracks, while Denim was created via extended jam sessions featuring all six members.
• Fake American: That's musician and part-time actor Broderick Smith (Ambrose's father) narrating Eyes Like the Sky, a Wild West-themed album for which he wrote the lyrics. "Sam Cherry's Last Shot" from 12 Bar Bruise was a dry run for the concept, but the lyrics for that song were taken from the book 33 Years Among Our Wild Indians by Col. Irving Dodge.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Encouraged with a number of their releases, particularly their live albums, demo compilations and the Teenage Gizzard re-release compilation. Of particular note alongside these is Polygondwanaland, where the band released all the masters on their website for people to not only download, but rip onto CD and press onto records. Heck, they even encouraged people to create their own back cover for the album!
  "Ever wanted to start your own record label? GO for it! Employ your mates, press wax, pack boxes. We do not own this record. You do. Go forth, share, enjoy."
  • Exploited with the release of the Automation single, where not only did they give it out for free, but they also gave out the raw multitrack stems and music video footage for fans to make their very own remixes and music videos of the song! Not since Nine Inch Nails has a band encouraged fans to remix their work.

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