A bold statement for a new year. The seventh studio album by Australian band The Paper Kites, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, is already, even as 2026 takes its first baby steps, an album-of-the-year contender. The majority of the album was written at a friend’s farm located within the Yarra Valley in Melbourne, and the wide-open spaces and mountain views have clearly served as an inspiration to the band. ‘If You Go There, I Hope You Find It’ is a phrase co-founder Christina Lacy wrote on a fogged-up bus window one morning, which became a quiet mission statement — a reflection on distance, devotion and the quiet hope that the people you love will find what they’re looking for, even if you can’t follow them where they go. Musically, it’s the five band…

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