Oddments is the fourth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 7 March 2014 on Flightless. It peaked at No. 13 on the ARIA Albums Chart after being re-released on vinyl in November 2018.[1] "Work This Time" remains the band's most listened-to track on Spotify, with over 30 million plays to date.[2]

Oddments
Studio album by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Released	7 March 2014 (2014-03-07)
Genre	Psychedelic rock psychedelic pop folk rock
Length	32:07
Label	Flightless
Producer	Stu Mackenzie Joe Walker
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard chronology
Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013) Oddments (2014) I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
Singles from Oddments
"Vegemite" Released: 13 January 2014

Background and recording

Oddments was announced on 14 January, 2014, with "Vegemite" serving as the album's lead single. Lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie said that the song was "probably the most literal song [he's] ever written".[3][4] Oddments consists of outtakes from the band's prior releases, with the album serving as a way to compile the songs without necessarily adhering to a sound or theme as the band had done up until that point;[5] the oddment nature of the songs (being leftovers from previous albums) gave the album its name.[6] The album opener "Alluda Majaka" refers to and features an audio sample of the Tollywood 1995 film of the same name. During production of the album, Mackenzie's laptop was stolen with the masters for several tracks on the album alongside a majority of the tracks from The Murlocs's debut album Loopholes, forcing both bands to rerecord the lost material.[7]

Reception

Oddments was the King Gizzard's fourth album in 18 months, with some reviewers noting that the album's quality seemingly suffered from the rush to quickly turnaround new material.[5][8][9] Reviewers and retrospectives on the band's discography also noted that the album was overall stylistically fractured and incohesive, something other releases of theirs had not been prior nor since,[5][10][6] although some reviewers and retrospectives also pointed out that songs had a pop lean to them.[6][11]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rolling Stone Australia	[12]

Track listing

All tracks written and produced by Stu Mackenzie, except where noted.

Vinyl releases have tracks 1–6 on Side A, and tracks 7–12 on Side B.[13]

Personnel

Credits for Oddments adapted from liner notes.[14]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

• Michael Cavanagh
• Cook Craig
• Ambrose Kenny-Smith
• Stu Mackenzie
• Eric Moore
• Lucas Skinner
• Joe Walker

Additional musicians

• Monty Hartnett – drums (tracks 9, 10)

Production

• Stu Mackenzie – production (tracks 1-5, 7-12)
• Joe Walker – production (tracks 2, 5, 6)
• Joe Carra – mastering
• Jason Galea – cover art and layout
• Jarrad Brown – recording assistance (track 7)

Charts

References