Body Type will release their third album this year.
The post-punk band today announced Tally, which will arrive on July 24th via Poison City Records.
Recoded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett), Tally “marks a deliberate evolution” for Body Type, according to a press release.
It’s the highly anticipated follow-up to their 2023 album Expired Candy, which earned them a nomination for the prestigious Australian Music Prize in the same year.
Expired Candy catapulted Body Type to global stages, including Roskilde and Rock Werchter, and key support slots for the likes of Sleater-Kinney and Foo Fighters.
Tally, then, finds them taking stock of their quick career ascent, processing their busy past few years.
Arriving alongside today’s album announcement is new single “Mulberry”. Listen to the track, which is described as a”meditation on self-dissolution,” below.
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Following their biggest-ever Australian headline show at Sydney’s White Bay Power Station last week, Body Type will join Tropical Fuck Storm, Winston Surfshirt, Miss Kaninna, and more on the Enmore Theatre stage at Sydney’s King Street Crawl on July 12th, before heading to the UK and Europe in October supporting Courtney Barnett on a run of UK and European dates.
Body Type featured in two major Rolling Stone AU/NZ lists last year.
“It took a special band to enter the exhausted landscape that was post-punk music in 2022 and make it sound refreshing, but that’s exactly what Body Type achieved with Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising,” we wrote while naming their debut album one of the 100 Best Australian Albums of the 2020s So Far.
One of that album’s standout tracks, “A Line”, made the cut in our Best Australian & New Zealand Songs of the 21st Century So Far countdown.
“‘A Line’ moves at its own menacing pace, in no rush to get anywhere, tantalising vocals proving to be almost unnerving by the song’s end. Post-punk was an exhausted field by 2022, but Body Type made it sound rejuvenated on ‘A Line’,” we praised.
Body Type’s “Mulberry” is out now. Tally is out July 24th via Poison City Records.
