They've played The Great EscapeUK, CMJ Music Marathon NYC, toured the UK twice and the US three timesincluding shows at SXSW, The Viper Room, Spaceland, Pianos and a live set onMorning Becomes Eclectic KCRW as well as rotation on over 20 radio stationsacross the US and a bunch of TV syncs to boot. They've also nabbed slots atsome of Australia's biggest festivals and supported David Byrne, The Shins andMidlake.

Those three acts are a good place to start to describe the band's sound -expansive, unconventional pop with a blush of wry optimism and romance. WhileAustralia is probably best known O/S for meat-and-potatoes rock 'n' roll a-la AC/DC, The Boat People represent a perhaps lesser known part of thecountry's musical landscape, more in the spirit of Brisbane legends The GoBetweens.
In the UK their second album Chandeliers was given 4 stars byUncut Magazine and picked by Planet Sounds as one of the top 50 albums of 2008,while Australia's Mess + Noise said “A genuinely great Australian pop album…asgood as anything you will hear in the genre this year". US tastemaker NicHarcourt called them "My favourite Australian band".

While Chandeliers was three years in the making, the band changed theirapproach for new album Dear Darkly, opting to work quickly andwith a wider palette. Produced by John Castle (Washington) in Melbourne wherehalf the band now resides, it is perhaps at risk of being deemed 'eclectic' bythose who never set their iPods to shuffle. In truth it is the sound of a bandno longer asking who they are but simply being it. The album ranges throughinky-soul and Triffids-inspired surf guitar, fey garage rock, absurdest lyrics,programmed beats, Asperges mantras and the odd bedroom recording of a nervousbreakdown, not to mention  essentials - love, loss, escape and despair. On DearDarkly, all of these things float together above the ground, well inlandfrom the East Coast of the National
consciousness. It is music made after reaching out across  the world for
the first time. It is what you bring back from there and knowing where
you belong.

Dear Darkly will be released on Friday, July 2 and includesthe singles
'Echo Stick Guitars', 'Soporific' and 'Under The Ocean'.