New/Sealed
CARPARK RECORDS 164
UPC: 677517116427
Release Date: 4/7/2023
 
On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships and more importantly, their aftermaths. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life? The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”
 
Track
Title
1
Expert In A Dying Field
2
Knees Deep
3
Silence Is Golden
4
Your Side
5
I Want To Listen
6
Head In The Clouds
7
Best Left
8
Change In The Weather
9
When You Know You Know
10
A Passing Rain
11
I Told You That I Was Afraid
12
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