Ironic then that such a word could be attached to something so explosively successful.

Puddinghead, the third album from hyperactive rockers Ball Park Music, has skyrocketed to number two in the Australian album charts, sold out shows across the country, and cemented a rowdy bunch of Brisbane musos in the nation's pop landscape.

And that's only after a week on the shelves.

"We've been getting some good press," bespectacled frontman Sam Cromack says, "which is always nice to read."

"I don't think our band has ever been critical darlings or anything like that, but our fans been especially receptive to our new stuff, and that's the best thing."

Cromack said the troupe was in good spirits ahead of its four-show Tasmanian jaunt, which starts tonight at Launceston's Hotel New York, before rolling on to Burnie and Hobart.

In all the band will play 20 shows across the country for the Puddinghead tour, in what Cromack is expecting to be a year of travel after bunkering down for 2013.

In short, BPM rented a beat-up old fibro house in suburban Brisbane to record and produce Puddinghead themselves.

It was its third album in three years - and the first LP as full-time musicians.

"We had a great time doing our first couple of records in studios, but we had read a lot about self- recording and it whet our appetite for it," Cromack said.

"We're lucky enough to be making music full-time now, meaning we could really throw ourselves 100 per cent into things."

Cromack said a common talking point was the band's high output, something he described as a misconception.

"It was not a goal to set out and release as much as possible in as short a time possible, it kind of just happened that way," he says.

"After the first album we didn't really have much to do, so it made sense to keep working.

"You know, I honestly don't know what other well-established artists do with their time if they're not making art - I can't understand why some artists take four or five years to release an album.

"Maybe it is to do with touring, or to build anticipation, but I'd just lose the plot if I wasn't working."

•Tickets are still available for tomorrow night's Ball Park Music show at Burnie, as well as Sunday's show in Hobart. Saturday night's Hobart gig has sold out.

THE FACTS

WHAT: Ball Park Music (with Papa vs. Pretty and Jesse Davidson)

WHEN: Tonight, from 9pm

WHERE: Hotel New York, Launceston

HOW MUCH: $35 via www.oztix.com.au/