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Ball Park Music

Ball Park Music is an Australian five-piece indie rock band from Brisbane consisting of Sam Cromack, Jennifer Boyce, Paul Furness, Dean Hanson and Daniel Hanson. Since forming in 2008, the band has released seven studio albums. Their debut, Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs (2011), was nominated for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards, and its 2012 follow-up, Museum, debuted at number nine on the ARIA charts. Their third album, Puddinghead (2014), was supported by the certified-platinum lead single "She Only Loves Me When I'm There".

Their experimental fourth album Every Night the Same Dream (2016) was praised for its psychedelic rock influence. In 2018, the band released Good Mood, a return to their familiar indie pop sound. Its platinum lead single "Exactly How You Are" polled at number 18 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017, and led the record to critical acclaim with three ARIA Award nominations. In 2020, they released their sixth studio album, Ball Park Music, supported by "Cherub" which polled at number four in the Hottest 100 of 2020. It won Album of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards and peaked at number two on the ARIA charts. The band's seventh album, Weirder & Weirder (2022), was nominated for Best Independent Album and Best Rock Album at the 2022 ARIA Awards.

Albums

2011 Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs
2012 Museum
2014 Puddinghead
2016 Every Night the Same Dream
2018 Good Mood
2020 Ball Park Music
2022 Weirder & Weirder
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"The eldest in the band is 24, so we might as well just smash it now while we’re young,” he smiles. “I don’t think we ever sat down and thought to ourselves that it wasn’t going to happen, you know?"
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“There’s this whole illusion and people think that if a band have a song on triple j they’re pretty much a rock star and they own houses and jet skis, and they’ll never have to lift a finger again... But that’s a real myth."
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Museum has seen BPM take pause, explore their sound and find their feet to produce a sophomore release with equal measures of happiness and sorrow… because that’s what happens when you grow up.
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Album Review: Ball Park Music - Museum
Museum provides the same captivating, funny, rejoicing and despairing streams of thought offered up by Ball Park Music’s debut but with more stock taken, and is ultimately a confident step in an assured direction.
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“Oh, I actually had a dream about a certain celebrity. She came to me and she was wearing a yellow blouse, and I was in love with her in my dream. I woke up and um, yeah! That went in the song.”
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Album Review: Ball Park Music - Museum
Museum is uniformly brilliant. It also probably marks the first album to feature the phrase “piece of piss”. Top marks.