Body Type - Tally Body Type

BODY TYPE’s Tally is out July 24 via Poison City in Australia and New Zealand, and (p)doom in all other corners of the globe.

Recorded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with producer Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, Courtney Barnett and Kim Gordon, Tally marks 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 is the second 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”.

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 sixties 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 reign supreme.