quantity over quality?
Polygondwanaland is pretty sweet though. It has a cool Crimson vibe to it.
also "Rattlesnake" is catchy as hell.
also they did a "What's in My Bag?" at Amoeba a few years ago which was cool. Some Yes in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8oexqhDaEo
It can seem like it on the surface but I wouldn't say so. 5 albums in a year may seem excessive but I think in the end all of them were good or great. Someone might argue what if they focused their writing into one album - maybe it would have been 10/10, but out of those 5 albums I would still argue that Polygondwanaland was a really good album and the other 4 were pretty good too.
There's plenty of bands who put out 1 album ever 3 or 4 years and those albums aren't necessarily better than what King Gizz put out.
that is true about the time gap, there are other instances where there is a long time gap and eventually the result comes out likely a lot better had they not.
The band who I would compare in some ways to King Gizzard, at least initially was
Pepe Deluxe who are notably perfectionists and their last album which they spent 5 years+ on,
Queen of the Wave is a stone cold classic record. The amount of time they spent waiting to borrow/access the vintage instruments I think made all the difference. And that was in 2012, so they have spent even more time on their newest record (again waiting to access the vintage instruments), and I expect it to be all the better because of the wait.
But I do agree Polygondwanaland is really great. Crumbling Castles is EPIC.
The other records I have heard from them are hit and miss. Although part of that might be just myself warming up to their sound and the vocal style.
But I also wonder if due to their varied styles, the style of Polygondwanaland may only come up once every few records.