Body Type – Sick Bag
Australian punk band Body Type will release their hotly anticipated new album Tally on July 24 via King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s p(doom) Records.
Already earning acclaim spanning Stereogum, Under The Radar, Consequence and much more, the band has unleashed new album preview track “Sick Bag” alongside a fantastical and darkly comedic video.
“Our first ever song to feature a mellotron — a true Stella moment,” says vocalist and guitarist Sophie McComish who continues, “This one just poured out of me like ink in a broken biro.” Written during a relationship that felt increasingly one-sided, “Sick Bag” song emerged after a conversation with bandmate Annabel Blackman, who pointed out the unusual patience McComish was showing someone who couldn’t meet her halfway. The result is one of Body Type’s most vulnerable songs to date, examining the fine line between generosity and self-erasure. “It could be a beautiful thing, really. When someone loves you so hard it makes you feel sick. Someone make me spew!” says McComish. The video was directed by Madeline Purdy and produced by Lucinda White.
Tally 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. 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).
Body Type has garnered international acclaim and has toured the globe extensively sharing stages with Foo Fighters, Sleater-Kinney, Warpaint, The Pixies, Fontaines D.C., Big Thief, Cate Le Bon, POND, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Frankie Cosmos, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Wolf Alice, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, DZ Deathrays and more. Their London show featured a cameo from esteemed punk musician Gina Birch (The Raincoats), affirming the band’s growing significance in a long lineage of women in punk music. Continuing this trajectory, the band have UK/EU dates supporting Courtney Barnett this Fall.
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