Laps Around the Sun by Ziggy Alberts

Laps Around the Sun, the third studio album from Australian singer-songwriter Ziggy Alberts, landed in November 2018 and gave him his first charting record, climbing to number nine on the ARIA chart. It was a long time coming: he wrote it across four years, and for the first time he chose the songs so they would hang together as a story.

That story leaves one relationship behind for a far healthier one, much of it addressed to Koda, a character Alberts invented to carry the qualities he wanted to practice himself and hoped to find in someone else. The songs feel warm and unhurried, which suits a record about finding your footing again. "Love Me Now" and the title track were the ones the countdowns grabbed, and he took the whole thing on the road with a 30-date Australian tour.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.