Ocean Alley: Love Balloon (2025)

This Australian rock band tie a neat bow around beach-friendly soulful pop, a touch of mainstream yacht rock and just enough interestingly laidback stuff to qualify as psychedelic. In fact the kind of sound that Kiwis embrace in the summer months around a fire on a beach or backyard barbecue. A very antipodean sound.

Next: Tom Lark, Moonlight Motel; Kora, Fifth Season; Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V

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