News: Ball Park Music release ‘Coast is Clear’ alongside much-anticipated Like Love album and a massive 30-date AU/NZ tour

Where the album’s title track, ‘Like Love’, shows a softer and more introspective side of the band and ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ had you singing along to its upbeat melody and undeniable chorus, the album’s third single, ‘Coast Is Clear’, gives us a profound insight into the effects of getting caught up in the day-to-day grind instead of being present for life’s everyday joys and the debilitating guilt that comes with that realisation, all set to a beautiful, hopeful, building rhythm begging that “Someday You’ll Appear”.

Ball Park Music singer-songwriter Sam Cromack says of the song, “This song has been kicking around since before Weirder & Weirder, but it remained on the sidelines for some reason. When we revisited it during the making of this album it became one of our favourites. It was the first song we did when we arrived in Sydney to start recording. It began with me thinking how busy/absent/distracted I can feel not just as a parent, but as a person. I often find it hard to unplug from the rush of the world and to be present with those I love, and am left feeling intense guilt and self-loathing at my inability to change. I originally sang ‘Someday I’ll appear’ but it felt much better when changed to ‘you’. The original feeling of the song remained but now this mysterious open-ended question was cast over who it is that may appear one day. I liked that”.

Today Ball Park Music also release their much-anticipated album, Like Love. Named after the title track, their 8^th studio album contains ‘Like Love’, ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’and ‘Coast Is Clear’ and further proves the band as one of Australia’s most influential acts of the last decade, expanding on their incredible catalogue of songs that have sound-tracked so many lives.

Since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed 2011 debut album, Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs, Ball Park Music have secured six consecutive Top 10 ARIA Album Chart spots, with three of those records debuting at #2, while four albums have also been certified Platinum.

Ball Park Music have also had an unbelievable 13 songs place in triple j’s Hottest 100, including two in the top 10, with ‘Cherub’ at #4 and ‘Stars In My Eyes’ at #8, while all seven of their previous records have appeared in the top 10 triple j Album of the Year listener pollin the year of their release.

Further critical acclaim has come through the multitude of awards recognising the band’s achievements, including winning a J Award and multiple Queensland Music Awards, as well as being nominated for 11 ARIA Awards, three J Awards, three AIR Awards, two National Live Music Awards and one nomination each from the APRA Awards, Rolling Stone Australia Awards and Channel [V] Awards.

Now, you can get a sneak-peak, behind-the-scenes insight into how Ball Park Music created Like Love, via their incredibly candid in-studio documentary, ‘World Behind Your Eyes‘, captured by filmmaker and friend of the band Jason Tran. Episodes one, two andthree are out now.

You can also order Ball Park Music’s Like Love on vinyl in two limited edition styles (‘Saffron’ and ‘Clear & Orange Splatter’), alongside Like Love t-shirts, a jumper and mug, as well as an embroidered ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ t-shirt all via the Ball Park Music Merch Store.

To cap it all off, Ball Park Music also performed an incredibly beautiful cover of Imogen Heaps’ iconic song ‘Hide and Seek’ for triple j’s Like A Version this morning, complete with some goose bump inducing harmonies.