Body Type Bite Into “Mulberry” and Find Something Luminous

Body Type have been one of Australia’s most quietly essential bands for a decade now, sharing stages with Foo Fighters, Sleater-Kinney, The Pixies, and King Gizzard along the way. Tally, their third album and first for King Gizzard’s p(doom) Records, arrives July 24 and marks a deliberate shift in pace. Where 2023’s Expired Candy rode post-pandemic momentum, this one takes longer to breathe — quieter ambitions, more considered craft, and a band clearly comfortable enough in their own skin to slow down and let the songs open up.

“Mulberry” is the lead single and a languid, sun-bruised thing. It starts with Georgia Wilkinson-Derums biting into the purple fruit and free-associating outward — Prince, bruises, veins, the heavens — in a meditation on self-dissolution that is simultaneously grounded and completely adrift. Recorded in Los Angeles at Velveteen Laboratory Studios with producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon), it sounds like a band that has finally stopped trying to prove anything and is just making the record they want to make.

Sophie McComish, Annabel Blackman, Cecil Coleman, and Wilkinson-Derums combine big jagged riffs, moody post-punk, and ’60s pop into something that feels cohesive and alive. Tally chronicles mundanity’s mystical implications, the deformations of romance, love’s confounding elasticity — and still finds room for wit and playfulness throughout. The band also has a UK and EU tour supporting Courtney Barnett coming this fall; dates to be announced at bodytypeband.com. Pre-order the album below.

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