Body Type have shared another taste of their new album.
The post-punk band announced Tally last month, which will arrive on July 24th via Poison City Records.
The album features “Sick Bag”, out today, which came to Body Type quickly. “This one just poured out of me like ink in a broken biro,” vocalist and guitarist Sophie McComish says about the track, which was written during a relationship that felt increasingly one-sided.
“Sick Bag” examines the fine line between generosity and self-erasure. “It could be a beautiful thing, really. When someone loves you so hard it makes you feel sick. Someone make me spew!” McComish adds.
The accompanying music video, directed by Madeline Purdy and produced by Lucinda White, was filmed on location in Sydney’s bustling Martin Place (watch below).
“Everyone thought we were shooting content for Macquarie Bank, even when Sophie started vomiting,” Purdy reveals. “If nothing else, we gave those on their lunch break some entertainment, and the security guards something to do. Making art in Martin Place in corporate wear is a challenge we all enjoyed.”
“Sick Bag” follows previous single “Mulberry”.
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Tally was recorded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett), and the album “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.
Following their biggest-ever Australian headline show at Sydney’s White Bay Power Station, 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 “Sick Bag” is out now. Tally is out July 24th via Poison City Records (pre-save here).
