ody Type new LP, single annced today
Body Type
Announce New Album Tally due out July 24
via King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s p(doom) Records
Unleash “Mulberry” Single + Video
Available across platforms here
UK/EU Tour Dates Supporting Courtney Barnett
“Sydney-based band Body Type make melodic garage rock with effortlessly cool vocals
and guitars that will make you wish the summer could last forever.” – FADER
“one of the most consistently impressive, powerful, and exciting bands on the
Australian scene.” – Rolling Stone Australia
“Pretty tongue in cheek and clever” – The Needle Drop
Credit: Jack Saltmiras
Australian punk band Body Type today announce their third album, Tally, due July 24 via King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s p(doom) Records. Recorded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon), Tallymarks a deliberate evolution for Sophie McComish (vocals and guitar), Annabel Blackman(vocals and guitar), Cecil Coleman (drums) and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums (vocals and bass). Where their 2023 album Expired Candy arrived on a wave of post-pandemic momentum, this record takes longer to breathe — its ambitions quieter, its craft more considered.
Case in point arrives new single, “Mulberry” — a languid, sun-bruised release that finds the band at their most assured. Built around a meditation on self-dissolution, the song is a rollicking marvel of free-association, which sees the narrator bite into the purple fruit, and ruminate on similarly-coloured beauties (Prince, bruises, veins) and the heavens. Wilkinson-Derums’ lyrics could very well sum up the entire album’s collision of dreaminess with the tactile: “Tuning the absurd in my day to day / Bound to the asphalt in every way”.
Watch / Share: “Mulberry” Video
With the release of Tally, Body Type celebrates the band’s tenth anniversary. The new collection is a luminous rock record, chronicling mundanity’s mystical implications, the deformations of romance and love’s confounding elasticity. Combining big, jagged riffs, moody post-punk and 60s pop, this is the band’s most self-assured and expansive record to date. It’s the sound of a band maturing and taking stock, but where wit and playfulness still reigns supreme.
Body Type garnered support spanning Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, FADER, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson, BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders and more. They have toured the globe extensively sharing stages with Foo Fighters,Sleater-Kinney, Warpaint, The Pixies, Fontaines D.C., Big Thief, Cate Le Bon, POND, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Frankie Cosmos, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Wolf Alice, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, DZ Deathrays and more. Their London show featured a cameo from esteemed punk musician Gina Birch (The Raincoats), affirming the band’s growing significance in a long lineage of women in punk music. Continuing this trajectory, the band have announced UK/EU dates supporting Courtney Barnett this Fall.
