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 and more importantly, their aftermaths. 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? The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”
Deluxe vinyl, hot pink colour variant exclusive to Australia & New Zealand.
Gatefold jacket, 140g, hot pink vinyl with a 24"x 24" poster inserted.
"It's like Liz Phair fronting a band with Beatles-level melodic smarts." - Rolling Stone
“A relentlessly upbeat barrage of electric guitar, punk drums, and sing-along vocal hooks that’s done before you know it, begging for you to hit the repeat button and start it over.” - MTV
“A new paradigm has been discovered and Liz Stokes is its Einstein.” - WXPN The Key
“Peppy and locked-in" - Stereogum
"['Jump Rope Gazers'] fills me with unbridled joy" - Phoebe Bridgers
Title: Expert In A Dying Field - Deluxe Hot Pink Vinyl
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 16 Sep 2022
Artist: The Beths
Sku: 2679102
Catalogue No: IVY831
Category: Alternative
DISC 1
1 Expert In A Dying Field
2 Knees Deep
3 Silence Is Golden
4 Your Side
5 I Want To Listen
6 Head In The Clouds
7 Best Left
8 Change In The Weather
9 When You Know You Know
10 A Passing Rain
11 I Told You That I Was Afraid
12 2am
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