BATTS – Just My Luck

Just My Luck is the third album from BATTS and follows her AMP nominated Sophomore album ‘The Nightline’ which featured songs with Sharon Van Etten and Deep Sea Diver.

Batt’s main focus for the third album was to fall in love with music again, to find the joy and playfulness in it all, something she felt she had lost through grief and the toxicities that exist in the industry. Created alongside her longtime band members Lachlan O’Kane, Brendan Tsui, and Ross Beaton and recorded in the beautiful surrounds of rural Victoria with engineer Alex O’Gorman. It was a chance to experiment and make an album rid of pressures with her musical family, an album she vowed she wanted to make before starting her own family. It covers an array of topics and chapters throughout her own life and gave her a chance to close some doors behind her before walking into the new one of ‘Motherhood’.

Just My Luck emotionally and sonically ranges from fun and upbeat with numbers like ‘Sell You The Sun’ drawing on influences such as The Beatles and Wilco to the heart wrenching closer ‘Bereaved’. Batt expresses, “I feel like there is a little something for everyone on this album, the first half is more upbeat and punchy and then it takes a more melancholy turn towards the end. This is my third album and I just really wanted to have fun with my band, take away the pressures and just have a great time creating.”