Adam Gibson and the Aerial Maps

"Adam Gibson looks set to join the ranks of fine Australian storytellers such as Paul Kelly and Mick Thomas"
- Sunday Telegraph, Sydney

Moments, sounds, faces, voices ... the fragments of experience that stick in the mind for whatever reason, the things that are retained as memories from life's mess of movement, from passing through a small town without a set of traffic lights, from the person you met in the early hours of a coastal night at least a decade ago, from the mysteries heard about at some indeterminate point in London or maybe just dreamt of in Brisbane.

I remember everything.

* New Album out soon on Popboomerang Records!*

Influenced by the bright landscapes described by Australian bands such as the Triffids, the Go-Betweens and Midnight Oil, plus the sparser work of the likes of Not Drowning Waving and the Necks, plus the lyrical brilliance of Mick Thomas and a dash of whatever-the-hell feels right ...  you get the picture - that's the Aerial Maps. It's a free-floating thing based around the words and ideas of Adam Gibson with like-minded people on board for a journey that has already gone a thousand places and will go a thousand more.

Accompanied on the initial recording occasion by  Simon Gibson, ex-Modern Giant compatriot Andy Meehan and all-round guru Simon Holmes, plus Australia's coolest "chanteuse" Lucy Lehmann, the Aerial Maps invite you to a place of long roads and empty towns, of forgotten cake shops and the loves you lost in the London night. It's hot or it's cold, it's crowded or it's empty ... but seen from above, seen from an aerial view, it all somehow makes a form of sense. Or actually, in fact, it may makes no sense at all.

The new (first!) Aerial Maps album has been recorded and will be out soon.

The tunes on it include the soon-to-be-hit 'Australian Girls are the Coolest Girls' (apologies to all non-Australian girls I know), 'Be Home Before the Streetlights Go On', 'Some Other Dream', a story about London called 'London Still Exists', a little ditty called 'The Shark', plus 'And the River Swum Wild', 'Those Nights' (with a heavy nod towards Badly Drawn Boy), a song about my father called 'On the Punt' and a broad brush stroke called 'The Great Australian Silence'.

A few of these songs are up here to have a listen to...

*NB: These new songs are all unmastered and aren't the final mixes. Bit rough.*

Stay tuned for more exciting news soon.