Prolific Melbourne band The Ocean Party have announced their new album The Oddfellows’ Hall via Spunk! Records. They have also shared a new single ‘Off and On’.
The Oddfellows’ Hall is eight studio album of a hand that have been together more than a decade. With each member approaching landmarks in their life, the album reflects a cross section of late twenties anxieties, excitements, freedoms and losses.
At the point of recording the lives of the six members were in neat contrast: expectant parenthood versus dissolution of a long term relationship; commitment to new ideas of the self versus returning to a foreign country twenty years since emigration; living in your car versus finding your place. As is typical of the band, The Ocean Party opted to record the music in a concentrated space of time and for their location chose a community hall they had spied while touring. The Oddfellows’ Hall in the rural New South Wales town of Yass lent a familiar homeliness to a band whose ties wind back to high-school in rural Australia. Set up in the open space of the 1880’s wooden-floored community hall the band introduced each other to their material for the first time and came away a week later with The Oddfellows’ Hall.
TOUR DATES
Fri 16th Nov – Tanswell’s Comm Hotel – Beechworth *
Sat 17th Nov – The Bridge Hotel – Castlemaine *
Sun 25th Nov – The Eastern – Ballarat *
Thu 29th Nov – The Metro – Adelaide
Fri 30th Nov – Thyme To Taste – Yass
Sat 1st Dec – Good Australian Beer Fest – Albury
Sat 1st Dec  – The Tote Hotel – Melbourne *
Sun 2nd Dec – The Birdhouse – Wagga Wagga *
Mon 3rd Dec – The Phoenix – Canberra *
Tue 4th Dec – CCXO – Sydney *
Wed 5th Dec – Franks Wild Years – Thirroul *
Thu 6th Dec – Netherworld Arcade – Brisbane *
Sat 8th Dec – Neighbourhood Sessions – Townsville
Sun 9th Dec – Secret Location – Cairns