Influenced by the bright landscapes described by 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 scope of Mick Thomas and a dash of whatever the hell else feels right ... that's the picture, in a way, and that's The Aerial Maps. A free-floating thing based around the words of Adam Gibson with like-minded people on board for a journey that has always gone a thousand places and will go a thousand more.

Accompanied on the initial recording* occasion by Simon Holmes, ex of the Hummingbirds, plus Simon Gibson, ex-Modern Giant compatriot Andy Meehan and 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 live band is Adam Gibson, Simon Holmes, Sean Kennedy, AJ Johnsen and Tim Byron.

The new Aerial Maps album will be released on September 13 and can be purchased from http://www.popboomerang.com

The tunes on it include '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 ''The Building of the Breakwall', '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'.