Body Type return with new single ‘And What Else?’ + sign to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s label p(doom) records (UK/US/EU)
PRAISE FOR Body Type
“AIR Award Best Independent Punk Album”
“Australian Music Prize”
“fbi.radio”
“2SER Radio”
“RTR FM”
“Edge Radio”
“SYN FM”
“3RRR”
“Body Type’s second album is poppier and more aligned with classic indie rock – and every bit as excellent as their stellar 2022 debut”
“The Australian post-punk quartet loosens up and leans into pop, with a greater sense of freedom – and a dollop of mischief”
“the Aussie four-piece lean further into their spiky riffs and punk-tinged vocals to offer up a rock album for a day at the beach”
“Expired Candy feels like an Australian classic”
“Sydney-based band Body Type make melodic garage rock with effortlessly cool vocals and guitars that will make you wish the summer could last forever”
“One of the most consistently impressive, powerful, and exciting bands on the Australian scene”
“Body Type at their most cheeky, assertive, and forward-looking”
“Whip-smart twisting of the post punk garage band template”
“Pretty tongue in cheek and clever”
‘And What Else?’ is out now via Poison City Records / p(doom), buy/stream it here.
Australia’s propulsive post-punk 4-piece Body Type are back with a new song, ‘And What Else?’ out locally via Poison City Records, alongside an official video and announcement of special live Australian dates. LISTEN + WATCH HERE.
After a brief break during which they tended to their own projects, band members Sophie McComish(vocals and guitar), Annabel Blackman (vocals and guitar), Cecil Coleman (drums) and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums (vocals and bass) reconvened in 2024. Rejuvenated and re-energised to tackle what the world hurls at us each day, the band immediately got to work.
Released today via Poison City Records (AU/NZ) and p(doom) Records (UK/US/EU), ‘And What Else?’ is a bratty, bittersweet call-and-response anthem, about the pleasures and pitfalls of fishing for compliments. Blackman was inspired by the haunted yearning of The Shangri-Las and the hammy delights of Ivy and the Eater’s hit ‘Working Women’. “The big chorus is a cathartic cry out against feeling insecure in a relationship, those mental twists your brain makes when statements of adoration make you feel sceptical and unworthy, but simultaneously hungry for more of that sweet stuff” says Blackman.
Since first forming in 2016, Body Type have shared a stream of acclaimed projects in EP1, EP2 and a quick succession of albums in their debut, Everything’s Dangerous But Nothing Is Surprising and Expired Candy. Met with global fever and demand, the band have toured Australia, the UK and US extensively, sharing stages with Sleater-Kinney, Warpaint, The Pixies, Wolf Alice, 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.
With appearances across Roskilde and Rock Werchter to SXSW, The Great Escape and a recording session at the BCC’s Maida Value studios, their London show featured a cameo from esteemed punk musician Gina Birch (The Raincoats), affirming Body Type’s growing significance in a long lineage of women in punk music. Collecting support throughout their career across Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, the FADER, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Australian Guitar Magazine, BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders and Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson; alongside radio playlisting on Double J and community stations fbi.radio, 2SER, Edge, RTR FM, SYN and 3RRR.
With the release of their new single ‘And What Else?’, Body Type look forward to upcoming headline performances at The Sydney Biennale and Punters Club.
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