The Aerial Maps are a critically acclaimed Sydney band built around the writing and vocals of Adam Gibson, whose “Best-of” album from his two-decade career debuted at Number 1 on the Australian Independent Records chart in 2020. Formed in early 2008 with Gibson, plus Simon Holmes (ex-The Hummingbirds), Simon Gibson (ex-Disneyfist, Sneeze, Modern Giant) and Sean Kennedy as the core original line-up, the band is influenced by the bright landscapes and long distances of Australia, of the like described by bands such as the Triffids, Not Drowning Waving, the Go-Betweens and Midnight Oil.

The band toured extensively around Australia, building a loyal and devoted following with their "story-songs" of love, loss and landscape. With a similar line-up, the band briefly morphed into Adam Gibson and The Ark-Ark Birds, releasing Australia Restless in 2015 and Cities of Spinifex in 2017.

Sadly, it was also in 2017 when founding Maps' member Simon Holmes passed away, bringing to a close the initial iteration of The Aerial Maps.

It was Holmes' passing that spurred Adam to reconvene his musical cohort again under the name of The Aerial Maps, and, after a 5-year hiatus, began the era of the new band. The new line-up consisting of himself, Simon Gibson, Alannah Russack (ex-Hummingbirds), Peter Fenton (ex-Crow), and Mark Hyland (ex-many bands) and Jasper Fenton, the band embarked on the recording of a new album.

In late December, 2022, the band began the process of recording some new songs for an envisaged new album with Midnight Oil's Jim Moginie overseeing the recording at Oceanic Studios in Sydney. At the conclusion of the first sessions of recording, they had recorded 11 new songs, with further recording in mid 2023 consolidating the selection of songs for a new album. The resultant 13 songs in total formed the content of their 4th album, Our Sunburnt Dream, released on June 21, 2024.