Body Type say their new album “Expired Candy” is “filled with hope, love, and danger, dancing with delicious uncertainty.” Australian girl gang Body Type live up to their promises because “Expired Candy” is a riot of garage punk rock delivered with a sly grin; pointed arrow to the heart.
Forged in lockdown it consumes the chaos of a world swirling with division, break ups and breakdowns, populists and narcissists, and delivers an attitude, crammed with heart, intellect and hooky tunes! Big tunes like life-affirming opener ‘Holding On’ is a soaring, hook-laden track, smeared in hopeful, knowing melodies and sprinkled with jousting, joyous life-affirming choruses, where the protagonist’s longing and messy “monsoon” emotions are kept afloat by friends and aphorisms passed down by family members. Also ‘Weekend’ that’s bittersweet garage-pop jumps head first into a juddering rhythm and sing-along melody that’s almost Broadway-worthy.
‘Miss The World’ is a centrepiece, a razor-sharp garage-pop anthem born of the COVID pandemic, with scurrying Batman-theme-like guitars and pummelling drums, laced with lead vocalist and guitarist, Sophie McComish’s urgent vocals, that are both an insidiously hooky lament and a spitting ball of frustration, swirling with the tumult of isolation, claustrophobia and the absurdity of our society and culture, raging at the “unquestioning compliance and the ascent of tyrants, told through pre-teen anarchists, bichon frises, and a drum beat based on a Gwen Stefani song.” For fans of the Breeders, Courtney Barnett and Sleater-Kinney, “Expired Candy” is quite frankly unstoppable, the ace soundtrack to hanging by our fingernails and doing it anyway.
‘Miss The World’ single taken from forthcoming album ‘Expired Candy’ (Out June 2nd) now via Poison City Records
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