Interview - The Beths

Out this Friday, Auckland quartet The Beths’ new album (Expert In A Dying Field) is their best and most varied yet. Where previous album Jump Rope Gazers found the group leaning into more reflective offerings to add to their by now signature bouncing riffs, Expert…builds on the more varied styles of song while expanding and harness their sound. Full of both indelible hooks and heart-wrenching inner thoughts, it’s their most complete album to date.

Denied the opportunity to properly tour Jump Rope Gazers after it’s release, the last few months have been an intensely busy period for The Beths as they’ve been balancing giving the second album it’s due while gradually and carefully turning the dial to focus on Expert In A Dying Field.

"This tour that we’re on has nearly finished and we’ve been playing the three new singles," explains main songwriter Liz Stokes to Gigwise via Zoom. "On the next round of touring of Australia and New Zealand, they’re album release shows so from then we’ll be playing much more of the new material." 

"We’ve been playing the new singles but I feel like, even though it’s two years after Jump Rope Gazers came out, it still feels like a tour for that. So we’re playing a mixture of those songs and songs from the first record. I don’t want to feel like we’re skipping over it!"

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