PREMIERE: Golden Age Of Ballooning - Love & War

Brissy-bred psych-folk-rock outfit Golden Age Of Ballooning have recently kicked off a run of shows in support of their sparkling new single, Love & War, but before they hit their next destination, The Music is thrilled to be premiering the clip for the track today.

The song itself, a gorgeously rendered, atmospheric, eminently listenable stroll of a jam, was recorded by men-about-town Konstantin Kersting (The Belligerents, Kingswood) and Miro Mackie (John Steel Singers, Babaganouj), with award-winning engineer Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) handling mixing duties and Don Bartley tackling the mastering.

It marks the first of four singles planned for release in 2016, and if that seems ambitious to you, you must have missed how full the band's calendar was in 2015, during which they not only put out their excellent second EP, We Will Never Let You Go, but found the time to support Paper Lions on tour in addition to a slew of festival appearances at events such as Man From Snowy River Festival, the Story Bridge 75th-anniversary celebrations, Jungle Love Festival, Concrete Jungle, Hobbstock Festival, BCC Parks Alive and the QUBE Effect competition/event — which they won — as well as picking up a high commendation at this year's Queensland Music Awards.

In that context, four singles doesn't seem so insurmountable — and, given the quality of the output they've already previewed, it's safe to expect that we're in for three more fantastic slices of psych-folk deliciousness before the year's out.

If you dig what you see and hear, Golden Age Of Ballooning have a bunch of shows lined up in the near future, kicking off this weekend at the New Globe Theatre on Saturday 11 June (with The Halls and Bad Pony). From there, they'll also stop by The Foundry for the BRING THEM HERE refugee fundraiser on 26 June, as well as performing at Frankie's Pizza, Sydney, on 27 July and Moonshine, in Manly, on 30 July (once again with Bad Pony).

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