BODY TYPE 'Tally' LP

Recorded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, 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 2nd 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 60s 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 reigns supreme.