What do people imagine when they think of Australian band Ball Park Music?
Do they imagine five youngsters cruising top down in a blaze of glory through the guts of Brisbane's indie-pop-rock utopia? Do they imagine a planning meeting atop a pyramid of vintage amplifiers and festival ticket stubs?
Ball Park Music has spent twelve months sitting naked before a pedestal fan in a lucid, humid fantasy. Instead of chasing the bright lights and big dreams of the world’s major cities, the band decided to crank it in their own backyard and do their third record on their own.
Determined to leave their own print on their craft, they opted to record their new work themselves and rented a dirt-cheap property in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. Every day they endured the overwhelming heat of their 70s fibro shack, scooped the mud from the doorway, smashed in the broken door, cleaned away the rotten food and insects and recorde...
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What do people imagine when they think of Australian band Ball Park Music?
Do they imagine five youngsters cruising top down in a blaze of glory through the guts of Brisbane's indie-pop-rock utopia? Do they imagine a planning meeting atop a pyramid of vintage amplifiers and festival ticket stubs?
Ball Park Music has spent twelve months sitting naked before a pedestal fan in a lucid, humid fantasy. Instead of chasing the bright lights and big dreams of the world’s major cities, the band decided to crank it in their own backyard and do their third record on their own.
Determined to leave their own print on their craft, they opted to record their new work themselves and rented a dirt-cheap property in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. Every day they endured the overwhelming heat of their 70s fibro shack, scooped the mud from the doorway, smashed in the broken door, cleaned away the rotten food and insects and recorded to the sweet backdrop of leaky taps, magpies and main roads. And somehow, it's worked.
After almost twelve months of recording in a proverbial sauna, the band appointed Grammy-nominated mixing engineer Tony Hoffer to help complete their hard work in the studio.
The new record is called 'Puddinghead'. Puddinghead debuted at #1 on the iTunes chart and #2 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Albums Chart. It was also Feature Album of the Week on tastemaker radio station triple j, who has added not less than 12 consecutive high rotation singles by the band.
The band wanted to celebrate their underdog leanings and rejoice in the love, loss and banalities of suburban Australian life with all their fans (who, we're pretty sure, feel the same way).
After a massive three years that's seen two J-award album nominations for both 'Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs' and the ARIA top ten 'Museum', sold out headline tours, an Australian tour with Weezer, outstanding performances at Australia's major festivals including Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Southbound, Homebake and Big Day Out, an international tour via New York, UK and The Netherlands, and four appearances in the top 40 of Triple J's Hottest 100, Ball Park Music are ready to hit foreign shores and introduce their infectious indie-pop to a new audience.
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