City Radio and viral music channel Balcony TV. The video was also added to the NME TV and MTV video playlists in the UK. Album tour In 2009 after the album launch at the Esplanade Hotel (Melbourne) the band embarked on an Australian East-coast tour and then onto the UK playing shows in London and Paris. The band toured the UK for the second time in 2010 in support of their second single "Pretty Little Thing" and appeared at The Great Escape Festival and Liverpool Sound City music festivals, alongside a host of other new Australian artists including Hungry Kids of Hungary, Dappled Cities & Bluejuice, as part of the Aussie BBQ shows. In October 2010, Blackchords played at the One Movement Festival in Perth and were personally invited by Ian Haug, the guitarist from Powderfinger to support Powderfinger at their last ever Melbourne show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl alongside Jet. Kicking off 2011, the band played at the Australian Open Men's Finals in January. A Thin Line Working independently and with limited funds, Blackchords took to crowd and fan funding website Pozible to raise the money for the recording and thankfully, their fans were keen to help and thus raised half of the recording costs for the album. In January 2012, Blackchords, under the guidance of sound engineer Mark Stanley of Red Room Studios, started the long process of recording their second studio album. Recording took place in a country shed transformed into a recording studio in regional Victoria. After recording some demos, Stanley recruited Mercury Prize nominated and Grammy winning producer/mixer, David Odlum (former guitarist with Irish band The Frames, producer- The Frames, Gemma Hayes, Luka Bloom, Josh Ritter among others) With Odlum guiding the band to produce a thoroughly international sounding album. The second album A Thin Line was released in April 2013 by ABC Music, distributed through Universal. A Thin Line adds more synth sounds to the broody pop they've become synonymous with. The album deals with darker themes of loss and confusion, while still providing contrast with songs of a higher energy. The theme of the album revolves around fighting everyday distraction and endeavouring to follow a narrow path ("a thin line") to your ambitions. Renee Jones of Themusic.com.au says of the album: "By keeping on a thin line and avoiding distraction, the band have created a 10-track release that ironically distracts you