Australian punk band Body Type today announce their third album, Tally, due July 24 via Poison City Records (ANZ) & p(doom) (ROW), alongside a new single, ‘Mulberry’ — a languid, sun-bruised release that finds the band at their most assured. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE.

Recorded at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles with producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon), Tally marks a deliberate evolution for Sophie, Annabel, Georgia and Cecil. 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.

‘Mulberry’ is a case in point. Built around a meditation on self-dissolution — mulberry stains on pavement, Prince songs as spiritual GPS, the strange comfort of becoming anything except yourself — the track grew slowly, across two hemispheres and multiple springs. Georgia began writing it in Fremantle, where the footpaths run purple every season; a year later she and Annabel were working on it again in Woonona, NSW, where, as Georgia puts it, the pavement “smudged every September” all the same. Mozgawa drew out the song’s full colour in Los Angeles. A spoken word interlude, contributed by artist Jim E Brown — a Valentine’s Day commission that arrived at exactly the right moment — lodges itself at the song’s centre like a found object that was always meant to be there.

WATCH: ‘Mulberry’ (Official Video)

Tally takes stock of a band that has moved fast. Off the back of Expired Candy, Body Type played Roskilde and Rock Werchter, had Gina Birch of The Raincoats join them onstage in London, and shared bills with Foo Fighters, Sleater-Kinney, and Warpaint. The new record processes all of that — the accumulated road miles, the shifting sense of self — without resorting to grand statements. It is, the band suggests, about how time shapes identity. The songs, apparently, make the case quietly but firmly.

Fresh off their biggest ever Australian headline show at Sydney’s White Bay Power Station last Friday and a red-hot set at Melbourne’s Punters Club, the band will join Tropical Fuck Storm, Winston Surfshirt, Miss Kaninna and others on the ticketed Enmore Theatre stage at Sydney’s King Street Crawl on July 12, before heading to the UK and Europe in October supporting Courtney Barnett on a run of UK and European dates. Spanning 13-dates, the tour stops in Berlin, Cologne, Utrecht, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, Glasgow, Gateshead, Nottingham, Manchester, Bristol, and two nights at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town. Full dates and details below.