The Beths
Fronted by their main songwriter, Elizabeth Stokes, New Zealand indie rock group the Beths combine energized guitar riffs, melodic hooks, and harmonized backing vocals in their impulsive, distinctly self-deprecating music. Having already won fans as a live act, the band released their first album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. Their 2021 live album Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 featured earworms from the debut and follow-up Jump Rope Gazers. The Beths completed their third long-player, 2022's anxious Expert in a Dying Field, in a Los Angeles studio while on tour. It reached number one on the New Zealand album charts.
Stokes (vocals, guitar) went to high school with Jonathan Pearce (guitar), and they later met Benjamin Sinclair (bass) and Ivan Luketina-Johnston (drums) while all four were studying jazz at the University of Auckland. The Beths materialized when the friends were playing together and began revisiting the punk-pop of their youth. They liked the results and made their recording debut in 2016 with the Pearce-produced Warm Blood EP. The Beths quickly built a reputation across Australia and New Zealand for their lively shows. Carpark Records took note and reissued Warm Blood to an international audience in 2018, the same year they released the Beths' full-length debut, Future Me Hates Me. Maintaining the grungy edge and infectiousness of their earliest songs, it was also produced by Pearce.
The band soon won over indie titans such as Death Cab for Cutie, the Breeders, and Pixies, all of whom created opening slots for the Beths on tours following the debut. Meanwhile, Tristan Deck replaced Luketina-Johnston as the group's drummer. Following 18 months on the road, they sequestered themselves to write and record their second album. Without ceding any catchiness, the Pearce-produced Jump Rope Gazers followed on Carpark in 2020. Highlights from both of their first two LPs were featured on the 13-track live album Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 the following year. They were already working on songs for their third studio LP when New Zealand began a four-month lockdown to combat COVID-19 in the latter half of 2021. The group re-emerged the following February for a U.S. tour that included a three-day mixing session in Los Angeles to complete songs tracked mostly at Pearce's studio in Auckland, with finishing touches captured on the road. The resulting anxious, 12-song Expert in a Dying Field saw release in September 2022, and became their first chart-topping album in their home country. The single "Watching the Credits" appeared in 2023.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Expert In A Dying Field
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 16 sep. 2022
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Brand New Colony / We Looked Like Giants
The Beths, Pickle Darling, Car Seat Headrest
Rock - Released by Sub Pop Records on 12 okt. 2023
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Watching The Credits
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 28 mrt. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Expert In A Dying Field
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 15 jul. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 17 sep. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I Told You That I Was Afraid (Acoustic)
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 13 jul. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Real Thing
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 9 feb. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Warm Blood
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 11 mrt. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Future Me Hates Me
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 9 mei 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Future Me Hates Me
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 10 aug. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jump Rope Gazers
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 10 jul. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 30 nov. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I'm Not Getting Excited / Dying to Believe
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 12 mei 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Silence Is Golden
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 14 jun. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Knees Deep
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark Records on 17 aug. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Out of Sight
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 16 jun. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Happy Unhappy
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 6 jun. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Out of Sight / I'm Not Getting Excited / Dying to Believe
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 16 jun. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Future Me Hates Me - Live
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 10 aug. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Great No One
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 4 jul. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I'm Not Getting Excited
Alternative en Indie - Released by Carpark on 13 mei 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo