Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe)

by The Beths

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zucchinini stumbled upon the title number earlier this year and proceeded to fall down a The Beths-obsessed hole! I love head in the clouds & knees deep SO much, but expert in a dying field is still my number one. I adore the demo version! Favorite track: Expert In A Dying Field (Demo).

shockers I LOVE THIS ALBUM I LISTEN TO IT ALL THE TIME!!!!!! :) Favorite track: Head In The Clouds.

thehartnett Uplifting and at times poignantly incisive, what a great album. You guys are the best! Love, from Éire Favorite track: Best Left.

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1.	Expert In A Dying Field 04:11	buy track
2.	Knees Deep 03:39	buy track
3.	Silence Is Golden 02:56	buy track
4.	Your Side 04:41	buy track
5.	I Want To Listen 02:12	buy track
6.	Head In The Clouds 04:01	buy track
7.	Best Left 03:58	buy track
8.	Change In The Weather 03:42	buy track
9.	When You Know You Know 04:08	buy track
10.	A Passing Rain 03:15	buy track
11.	I Told You That I Was Afraid 03:21	buy track
12.	2am 04:49	buy track
13.	I Told You That I Was Afraid (Acoustic) 03:11	buy track
14.	When You Know You Know (Acoustic) 04:03	buy track
15.	A Real Thing 03:34	buy track
16.	Watching The Credits 03:15	buy track
17.	Keep The Distance (Demo) 04:08	buy track
18.	Expert In A Dying Field (Demo) 04:09	buy track
19.	I Want To Listen (Demo) 02:59	buy track
20.	2am (Demo) 03:41	buy track

about

In September 2022, The Beths released their third album, Expert In A Dying Field. The response was immediately positive and earned them a place on a great deal of Best-Album-of-the-Year lists like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Stereogum, to name a few. One year later, the band will release Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) with bonus material, including singles “A Real Thing” and “Watching The Credits,” along with acoustic and demo versions of album tracks and one never-before-heard demo “Keep The Distance.”

On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun -- to hear, to play -- in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) -- and sometimes in the building's cavernous stairwell at 1am -- toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone, the first time they’d written together in such a way. The following February, The Beths left the country for the first time in more than two years to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road. That latter half felt more collaborative, with everyone on-hand to trade notes in real time, until it all culminated in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and self-effacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? And are we still good people at the end of it? She isn’t interested in villains, but instead interested in just telling the story. That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish - instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been.

credits

released September 15, 2023

Credits:
Tracks 3 and 4 Produced by Jonathan Pearce
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 Engineered by Jonathan Pearce
Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8 Engineered by Elizabeth Stokes
Tracks 1, 2 and 4 Mixed by Bevan Smith
Tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Mixed by Jonathan Pearce
Violin, track 4 by Charmian Keay, arranged by Benjamin Sinclair
Mastered by Joe Lambert

Additional thank yous:
Ruby Walsh, Nicolas Vernhes

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shows

Aug 15

Madonna Inn Meadows

San Luis Obispo, CA
Aug 16

Fox Theater

Oakland, CA
Aug 18

Pioneer Square

Portland, OR
Aug 19

Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle, WA
Aug 21

Knitting Factory - Spokane

Spokane, WA
Aug 22

Treefort Music Hall

Boise, ID
Aug 24

Mission Ballroom

Denver, CO
Aug 26

Delmar Hall

St Louis, MO
Aug 27

Columbus Athenaeum

Columbus, OH
Aug 28

Saint Andrew's Hall

Detroit, MI
Aug 30

Bronson Centre

Ottawa, ON
Aug 31

Foufounes Électriques

Montreal, QC
Sep 3

Asbury Hall

Buffalo, NY
Sep 4

Higher Ground Ballroom

South Burlington, VT
Sep 5

Tree House Brewing Company - Deerfield

South Deerfield, MA
Sep 6

Bearsville Theater

Woodstock, NY
Sep 7

White Eagle Hall

Jersey City, NJ

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