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THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF BALL PARK MUSIC

There’s a great many reasons to love Ball Park Music, not the least of which being their shit-hot indie-rock. Another is their consistency: without fail, you can expect a new record from the Brissy-native quintet every two years. It’s a tradition they’ve kept alive for a flat decade now, the only exception being their 2012 sophomore effort, Museum (which came just over a year after Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs). Without the chance to tour their self-titled 2020 album, the band had a wealth of extra time to work on this year’s album.

So in a first for the band, Ball Park Music spent the entirety of 2021 slowly chipping away at a record, moving into a brand new studio – “a little timber cottage in The Valley, which was once part of Brisbane’s

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