Ball Park Music Detail New Album ‘Weirder & Weirder’

Aussie favourites Ball Park Music have announced their next album.

Following on from their self-titled LP in 2020, the band’s seventh studio offering, Weirder & Weirder, will arrive on June 3, as unveiled via socials today.

It also appears they’re planning a tour around it, although nothing has been revealed yet (the band’s album announcement teases a tour and they’ve also created an event page that states “the greatest tour of 2022 is brewing”).

You can check out lead single Sunscreen (released last October) below as well as Ball Park Music’s album statement.

Floating by myself in the ocean on January 1st 2021, relaxed and reflective in the fertile opening hours of a new year, a song presents itself to me fully formed. I like it. Over and over I sing it, hoping to keep it in my grip. But like everything from the sea, it’s slippery. I’m getting frantic. I need to get to the land and nail it down. I’m drying off. The melody is blurring. As I clamber for my things, I realise I’ve let go of the leash and now I’m chasing, chasing, chasing.

By the time I’m back in Brisbane, it’s desperate. I wrangle whoever I can to the studio and we dive right in. A carefree moment. A flurry of sound sketched with none of the usual precision, but a moment sketched all the same. Listening back, clapping along even, we realise we are still holding it and that something has begun.

Just a few weeks ago, this thing that began resolved. I look at it now, decorated with violins and 12-string guitars, with wincing horns and choirs, with thundering rhythms and furry sounds ya mumma would wanna pat, and it’s beautiful.

For more than a year we danced and dodged, fought and flirted with this music. Sometimes we had focused, frenzied periods of intense work; recordings popped up like daisies every which way you looked. Other times we thawed; the soft, slow heartbeat of the process swinging us far and wide with self-doubt.

It’s been a strange time you see. Not just because the world is sick, but because the one strict course through life is always a strange time. And when the already peculiar forces decide to turn up the heat, well, it’s most definitely time to sit by the flame and start jotting it all down.

And as you’re jot, jot, jotting and all is rotting, there’s resignation in your smile.

A filthy confusing somethin’ is bubblin’.

It never goes out of style..