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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. "Work This Time" remains the band's most listened-to track on Spotify, with over 40 million plays to date.




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". 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; the oddment nature of the songs (being leftovers from previous albums) gave the album its name. The album opener "Alluda Majaka" refers to and features an audio sample of the 1995 Telugu 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' debut album Loopholes, forcing both bands to rerecord the lost material.




Reception



Oddments was 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. 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, although some reviewers and retrospectives also pointed out that songs had a pop lean to them.




Track listing


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




Personnel


Credits for Oddments adapted from liner notes.
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 and 10)
Production

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




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