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Ball Park Music – Happiness and
Surrounding Suburbs
What’s suburban life in Brisbane, Australia really like? If you ask the local lads and lasses in Ball Park Music, it’s much the same as the world over. Cartoon angst and a world filled with self induced drama, that and spending too much time in front of the personal computer and making love alone. You know being a modern day twenty something.
Finding out the band members meet at Uni makes sense as well, this music is infused with a charming sense of abandon, the kind of take on the world that comes from a life not yet trampled down into compartmentalized uniformity. Its energy is infectious and the word play is engaging.
Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs has an overabundance of riches and from the self-involvement of Sad Rude Future to the expansive power chords of Rich People Are Stupid to the big finish of Happy Healthy Citizen Of The Developed World Blues, also drops more than its fair share of attitude. The album might be short at less than 37 minutes long but that doesn’t prevent it from making a lasting impression.
Ball Park Music are on a roll and have all the right local dignitaries lining up to sing their praise and unlike a lot of bands that bath in that particular spotlight are deserved recipients.
Rob Hudson
www.myspace.com/musicfromtheballpark
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