On Polygondwanaland, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard keep right on lizard wizardin’ on the Australian band’s fourth album of 2017. The nearly 11-minute “Crumbling Castle” opener seems to suggest a breakthrough for the happily conceptual and prolific act, containing all the ratcheted-up double-drummer mosh-pit inducing surf-punk frenzy at the core of the group’s live shows, yet with new layers of minimalist rhythmic subtlety. Nothing else on Polygondwanaland quite bends the rules in the same way, but instead, coils the new intricacy inwards, like the interlocked parts and stacked vocals of “The Castle In The Air.” Hampered only occasionally by the narrative drag that made Murder of the Universe a slog for nearly all but the most dedicated Gizz-heads, the 44-minute album holds together with the confidence of a band that has clocked its share of hard hours conceptualizing, arranging, practicing, recording and touring in a cycle so fast that the five actions are perhaps now indistinguishable. Even at its most prog-minded, like the start-stop flute-topped “Loyalty,” the album achieves the rare feat of moving with both the logic of how bodies churn together in mosh pits, but also the way the ear carries a listener through an album. Rich with acoustic guitars, lead bass, vintage-sounding synths and constant left turns, the lyrics likely interlink with what Reddit-congregating fans have dubbed “the Gizzverse.” More relevantly, with a through-line of propulsive fun, Polygondwanaland manifests the lizard wizarding world whole: a magical mystery Gizzverse, coming to take you away.