Beths, The - Straight Line Was a Lie LP (Indies Exclusive Lime Sherbert Vinyl) (Due Out 29/08/2025)

Please note; this is a pre-order item due for release 29th August 2025.

New Zealand indie rock heroes The Beths latest album Straight Line Was A Lieis a catchy, instant classic out on Anti.

Written in Los Angeles and self- recorded in the band's hometown of Auckland, Straight Line Was A Lie (their first release for ANTI-) follows 2022's critically celebrated LP Expert in A Dying Field. Lead singer and songwriter Liz Stokes delves deeper into her psyche to address everything from roundabout progress to physical and mental health challenges, and fraught family dynamics. Inspired by The Go-Go's, Olivia Rodrigo, flmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and Stephen King's On Writing, amongst others, Stokes' songwriting has achieved startling new depths of insight and vulnerability.

1. Straight Line Was a Lie
2. Mosquitoes
3. No Joy
4. Metal
5. Mother Pray for Me
6. Til My Heart Stops
7. Take
8. Roundabout
9. Ark of the Covenant
10. Best Laid Plans