*BRAND NEW AND SEALED / SILVER VINYL*

Description

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.”

Tracklist: A1. Expert In A Dying Field, A2. Knees Deep, A3. Silence Is Golden, A4. Your Side, A5. I Want To Listen, A6. Head In The Clouds, B1. Best Left, B2. Change In The Weather, B3. When You Know You Know, B4. A Passing Rain, B5. I Told You That I Was Afraid, B6. 2am

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: ALTERNATIVE
• Format Type: LP