The Beths Sign To ANTI- Records And Share New Single “Metal”

New Zealand quartet the Beths have released a brand new single to coincide with their signing to ANTI- Records. The new single Metal is the first new music from the band since 2023’s deluxe edition of the album Expert In A Dying Field on Carpark Records.

“In some ways, ‘Metal’ is a song about being alive and existing in a human body,” explains vocalist/guitarist Elizabeth Stokes. “That is something I have been acutely aware of in the last few years, where I have been on what one might call a ‘health journey’. For parts of the last few years, I kind of felt like my body was a vehicle that had carried me pretty well thus far, but was breaking down, something I had little to no control over. All of the steps in the Rube Goldberg machine of life are so unlikely, and yet here we are in it. I have a hunger and a curiosity for learning about the world around me, and for learning about myself. And despite all the ways that my body feels like a broken machine, I still marvel at the complexity of such a machine.” 

The track finds The Beths embracing a jangly sound complete with 12 string guitar. Stokes says, “There was a propulsion to the acoustic strumming pattern on the original demo. Tristan’s drums meet that feeling so perfectly, the feeling of a train pushing up the tracks. Jonathan got to play his Burns 12 string guitar as sparkly as he wanted, and Ben as usual, can’t be contained to the lower register. I think we ended up with an arrangement that embodies the frenetic intricacy of an engine in action. There’s a lot going on, until there isn’t.”  

The Beths will tour the US this fall/winter with a New England stop December 9th at Royale Boston with Phoebe Rings