Product Code: CAK157
Artist: Beths The
Origin: New Zealand.
Label: (2021)
Format: 2 X LP
Availability: In Stock
Condition:
Cover: M
Record: M
Genre: Alternative Rock , Indie Rock , Rock N

Auckland, New Zealand 2020 (Blue Vinyl)

Brand new double live album from NZs The Beths pressed in Blue Vinyl housed in a gatefold cover

Auckland, New Zealand, 2020

Housed in a wide spine single sleeve jacket. Pressed on Blue vinyl.Includes unlimited streaming of Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

The anticipation is there in Elizabeth Stokes’ solo guitar riff under the opening lines of “I’m Not Getting Excited”: a frenetic, driving force daring a packed Auckland Town Hall to do exactly the opposite of what the track title suggests.

As the opener of The Beths’ Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 expands to include the full band, the crowd screeches and bellows. It’s a collective exhalation, in one of the few countries where live music is still possible.

The album title, and film of the same name, deliberately include the date and location, lead guitarist Jonathan Pearce says. “That’s the sensational part of what we actually did.” In a mid-pandemic world, playing to a heaving, enraptured home crowd feels miraculous.

In March 2020, everything seemed on track for another huge year for The Beths. Home after an 18-month northern hemisphere tour, they had just finished recording sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers and were primed for more extensive touring. But within days, New Zealand’s lockdown split the band between three separate houses. All touring was cancelled.

“It was existentially bad,” Stokes says. As well as worrying about economic survival, they lost something crucial to the band’s identity: live performance. “It's a huge part of how we see ourselves...  more

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released September 17, 2021

THE BETHS
Elizabeth Stokes
Jonathan Pearce
Benjamin Sinclair
Tristan Deck
   
     

 

 

 

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