This track is
from She Beats, the sophomore full-length from Australia’s all-female
quintet Beaches, released on May 3rd by Chapter Music.
It’s been
five years since debut album Beaches, which was shortlisted for the
Australian Music Prize and made it into 2010 book 100 Best Australian
Albums. In the intervening years, the band have toured the US twice, played All
Tomorrow’s Parties at the invitation of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, released
an EP for NYC label Mexican Summer, shared stages with the likes of Roky
Erickson, Deerhunter and Wooden Shjips, and even celebrated the birth of
beautiful twin daughters to guitarist Alison Bolger.
But a second
album was always on the cards. For She
Beats, Beaches have once again joined forces with producer Jack Farley (Twerps,
Scott & Charlene’s Wedding). And like its predecessor, the album reflects a
love for 60s pop, 70s psych, shoe-gaze, prog, southern boogie and Krautrock.
But She Beats is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than the debut. She Beats is rich, confident and
layered, a multi-dimensional sonic world to get lost in over and over again.
