There’s always plenty to talk about with Australia’s most prolific seven-piece/maddest madmen King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

They’ve just played three shows at Glastonbury, are gearing up for Splendour (later this week) and their titular Gizzfest (later this year). Plus, there’s several more albums to come despite already releasing two this year.

But speaking to two-sevenths of The Gizz on triple j Drive this arvo, Veronica and Lewis wanted to discuss the hottest of current topics: the band’s new #1 fan Baby Driver director Edgar Wright.

When the acclaimed filmmaker came through triple j to profess his massive Gizzhead status, he said he was planning to link up with the band behind his favourite album of 2016. And it turns out, hell yes, the two parties did indeed meet up in the band’s native Melbourne.

"We hung out a couple times actually," frontman Stu Mackenzie confirms. "We had some beers, went to the studio, watched Baby Driver … Picked his brain."

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Drummer Eric Moore adds: "We went to an empty bar that was playing [cult 1971 flick] Wake In Fright to try and scare him. But he was just a massive fan of the film [already]."

"…He’s actually such a genuine down-to-earth guy it was so cool to hang out and hear some stories from Hollywood. It was dope."

So what about Edgar’s pitch to helm a future King Gizzard music video? "We would love to do that," the duo says – on one condition: Wright needs to work together with long-time Gizz visual genius Jason Galea; “they’ve got to hook up and collab on something for it to happen.”

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Stu and Eric also gave us an update on the band’s bonkers 2017 album release plan. February brought the triple j featured Flying Microtonal Banana; last month they released the spoken word thrash and prog of Murder Of The Universe.

What comes next? Sketches Of Brunswick East, a collaborative album conceived with Alexander Brettin, frontman of Mild High Club.

"They came over and played Gizzfest with us in December and [Alex] just stayed at my house for a few weeks," Stu explains. "We were sending each other these really rough, vague ideas before that… usually just a chord progression or a melody."

They hit the studio “most days” during Alex’s stay, chipping away at their loose-leaning ideas and "ended up with about 15 recordings… These interesting, chilled, jazzy, loose improvised pieces. Then we spent up until a month ago going back and forward, changing them, cutting things out… finished the record that way."

The new LP is finished and is coming "hopefully very soon" but don't expect a release date, Eric says "we're just gonna drop it at any point. It's just coming out, straight up."

"We might look like we’re organised but we’re not in any way..."