Body Type have announced the release of their third album Tally, which will be out on 24 July via King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s p(doom) Records.
Recorded in Los Angeles at Velveteen Laboratory Studios with producer Stella Mozgawa, the album reportedly trades some of the immediate post-pandemic urgency of 2023’s Expired Candy for something slower-burning and more reflective. That evolution is already threaded through new single “Mulberry”, a hazy, bruised piece of guitar-pop that drifts between surreal imagery and grounded physicality. Purple fruit, veins, bruises and sky all blur together as the song spirals through free association without ever losing its emotional centre.
What makes “Mulberry” land so effectively is the tension running underneath it. Body Type have always balanced sharp-edged post-punk instincts with wit and melodic looseness, but here the band sound more comfortable allowing space into the music. The riffs still arrive jagged and abrasive when needed, yet there’s a warmth surrounding them now, pulling in fragments of ‘60s pop and dreamlike melancholy without sanding away the group’s bite.
Over the past decade, Body Type have steadily built themselves into one of Australia’s most compelling guitar bands, sharing stages with everyone from Foo Fighters and Sleater-Kinney through to Fontaines D.C. and Courtney Barnett, while earning support from outlets spanning NME, Rolling Stone and BBC Radio 1. Yet despite that rising profile, they’ve largely avoided calcifying into scene clichés or nostalgia-driven revivalism.
Body Type have lined up UK and European dates supporting Courtney Barnett for later this year.
Stream Mulberry HERE.
