New Zealand indie-rockers the Beths have introduced their first new album in three years. Straight Line Was a Lie is out August 29 through Anti-, marking their debut on the label. The band has additionally shared the brand new track “No Pleasure,” which singer Elizabeth Stokes wrote when attempting to course of the newfound advantages and struggles of taking an SSRI for her well being. Watch the “No Pleasure” video under.
“[‘No Joy’] is about anhedonia, which, paradoxically, was there each within the worst components of melancholy, after which additionally after I was feeling fairly numb on my SSRI,” Stokes defined. “It wasn’t that I used to be unhappy, I used to be feeling fairly good. It was simply that I didn’t just like the issues that I favored. I wasn’t getting pleasure from them. It’s very literal.”
Straight Line Was a Lie was written in Los Angeles and recorded within the Beths’ hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. The follow-up to their 2022 full-length, Expert in a Dying Field, will get its album title from the phantasm of linear development and the way, in keeping with Stokes, life is about discovering that means within the upkeep.
As beforehand introduced, the Beths are happening a huge headlining tour later this 12 months, with dates scheduled throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, and america. Becoming a member of them as openers on choose live shows are Illuminati Hotties, Squirrel Flower, Bret McKenzie, Phoebe Rings, and Dateline.
Examine Knowledgeable in a Dying Discipline at No. 47 in “The 50 Best Albums of 2022.”
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Straight Line Was a Lie:
01 Straight Line Was a Lie
02 Mosquitoes
03 No Pleasure
04 Steel
05 Mom, Pray for Me
06 Til My Coronary heart Stops
07 Take
08 Roundabout
09 Ark of the Covenant
10 Finest Laid Plans
