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Love Balloon by Ocean Alley
Love Balloon is an album by Ocean Alley, released in 2025. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Tangerine”, on 1 list with a best position of #15.
Love Balloon, Ocean Alley's fifth album, arrived on 19 September 2025, after the Northern Beaches six-piece announced it in June alongside the title track. It keeps doing what they do best: laid-back, sun-warped psych rock with reggae in its hips, the kind of record that sounds best with salt still drying on your skin.
Baden Donegal's vocals and guitar lead the way, with Angus Goodwin's lead lines curling around Lach Galbraith's keys, Mitch Galbraith's guitar, Nic Blom's bass and Tom O'Brien's drums. "Tangerine" came first, and "Love Balloon", "First Blush" and "Drenched" all stretch the same easy, hazy groove. Nick DiDia produced and Leon Zervos handled the engineering side, and both picked up nominations at the 2026 AIR Awards for their work on it, as did the album's independent marketing and publicity teams, a reminder that the band still does all this without a major label.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Love Balloon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tangerine | 1 | #15 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Love Balloon | 1 | #17 | – | 2025 | |
| 3 | First Blush | 1 | #43 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Drenched | 1 | #44 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | Left of the Dealer | 1 | #87 | – | 2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.