The Beths

The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe Edition) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:02 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark Records

In September 2022, The Beths released their third album, Expert In A Dying Field. The response was immediately positive and earned them a place on a great deal of Best-Album-of-the-Year lists like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Stereogum, to name a few. One year later, the band will release Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) with bonus material, including singles “A Real Thing” and “Watching The Credits,” along with acoustic and demo versions of album tracks and one never-before-heard demo “Keep The Distance.”

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The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:36 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark Records

The Beths may have been founded by jazz majors at the University of Auckland, but they quickly built their reputation in the clubs of Australia and their native New Zealand for an impulsive, infectious indie rock. Inspired, at least in large part, by the punk-pop of their childhood, they rely on energized guitar riffs, melodic hooks, and multi-part vocal harmonies. It’s a formula presented in spades on their full-length debut Future Me Hates Me, beginning with the outright banger “Great No One.” The song opens at a brisk tempo with a hummable vocal line and a distorted guitar striking in rhythm with clean jabs. It adds lead guitar and backing vocals before landing on its euphoric chorus. As the album title Future Me Hates Me forewarns, this is all tempered by lyrics that include words like “trying,” “in between,” and “apathy,” and lead singer Elizabeth Stokes’ ruminative vocal quality, which delivers rousing melodies while keeping emotions in check. Song titles like “Little Death” and “You Wouldn’t Like Me” (“…If you saw what was inside me”) underscore the discontent. As far as range, the Beths come closest to an unhyphenated punk rock on “Uptown Girl” and are most restrained on the closer “Less Than Thou.” Still, they never dim the stage lights or suggest a drink refill or restroom break. Instead, the album plays like a greatest-hits collection, and since it doesn’t seem to cater to a musical or emotional middle ground, it makes for a guilt-free pleasure.

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The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:59 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark Records

On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

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The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:59 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark Records

On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

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