King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Willoughby's Beach (12"EP, 45rpm) [P(DOOM)]

Why you'll love it

The Melbourne band's very first EP back on 12-inch at 45rpm, from their own p(doom) label. Nine short bursts of garage rock from 2011, closing with the title track.

This edition

• 12-inch EP at 45rpm
• Nine tracks across two sides

About the album

Before the microtonal records, the thrash albums, the jazz detours and the five-album years, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard were a bunch of mates from Melbourne making scrappy, surf-flavoured garage rock. Willoughby's Beach, their 2011 debut EP, is where it all started, and it's a joy: fuzzy guitars, frantic drums and songs that rarely make it past three minutes.

"Danger $$$", "Black Tooth" and "Crookedile" race along, "Stoned Mullet" is about exactly what you'd think, and the title track closes things on a sunny note. It's the sound of a band who had no idea how far they'd go. We're still not sure they know, frankly, and they're thirty albums in.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 2, 2026 on p(doom) (cat# PDOOM9901), a reissue of the 2011 EP.