Forthcoming: Ball Park Music
News posted Tuesday, August 28 2012 at 09:00 AM.
Related: Ball Park Music.
What: Museum by Ball Park Music
When: October 5 through Stop Start/EMI
Key notes: Brisbane quintet’s second album, following last September’s Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs. The result of frontman Sam Cromack’s challenge for the band to make another record within a year of the first. Follows the first album’s Hottest 100-placing singles ‘It’s Nice to Be Alive’ (#31) and ‘All I Want is You’ (#38), as well as a 30-date tour. Led by the expansive single ‘Surrender’ – including the askew film clip below – which finds the band as bustling and gleeful as ever.
From the presser: “The album bears no resemblance of something rushed. Museum is an assured and cohesive piece like no other Ball Park Music release before.”
Tracklisting:
Fence Sitter
Surrender
Coming Down
Bad Taste Blues (Part I)
Bad Taste Blues (Part II)
Cry With One Eye
Great Display of Patience
High Court
Pot of Gold
Cost of Lifestyle
Harbour of Lame Ducks
What's On Your Mind?
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another album with a sticker showing the title.
I am pretty excited about this.
Really? Thought their first album was sub-weezer blandness.
Does the Stop/Start label have any taste of their own? They seem to just sign whichever band just won the Triple J Unearthed raffle.
So what yr saying is that they're backing a sure fire radio hit winner every time? Seems like good business sense to me...
uncanny
I don't know, I genuinely liked most of their debut, but I'm not sold on 'Surrender', Cromack is a sounding a bit Bernard Fanning in this one.
'Surrender' is excellent.
There's seminal labels who started movements by signing bands based purely on the music, without commercial considerations. ie. 4AD, Warp, Domino, Rough Trade...
Then there's labels who are sheep, who just sign whatever the radio happens to be Unearthing....
But then again, Stop/Start is an EMI shmindie, so you can't expect much more than that...these days EMI will happily whore their bands to beer companies (ie. Gold Fields). It's a race to the bottom.