About “Sketches of Brunswick East”

Sketches of Brunswick East is King Gizzard’s third of five projected albums to be released in 2017, and was released August 18, 2017 following its first public playthrough in its entirety via Facebook live stream

Sketches of Brunswick East is a collaboration with Mild High Club, which came about as the bands toured the world together. The two bands worked by essentially sampling themselves, piecing together bits of reworked recordings to form a complete song. In a press release, lead singer Stu Mackenzie likened it to “sampling-culture, in which old ideas are reshaped and suddenly things make sense. It was like we were continually jamming with ourselves.”

The album title is a reference to the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick East and Miles Davis' album Sketches of Spain.

The album art itself, alongside one of the track titles, gives a fun reference to the location of Flightless Records, in a storefront called “Nowhere Special.” The location has a street address of 253 Lygon Street (track 8 for the street) and is located below a Tan’s Martial Arts Supplier.



nowhere special 253 lygon street — Imgur Post with 2 views. nowhere special 253 lygon street

(The real-world storefront is labeled as “No One Special,” at least in these photos (courtesy of Google/Google Maps) but the Google Maps entry for the establishment as well as the album art refer to it as “Nowhere Special.”)