The Beths have announced their fourth album ‘Straight Line Was A Lie’

The Beths are set to release their fourth album ‘Straight Line Was A Lie’ via ANTI- Records on 29th August, alongside sharing new single ‘No Joy’.

The New Zealand quartet – Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair, and Tristan Deck – explore themes of existential vertigo and cyclical personal growth on their latest full-length. The album follows their 2022 release ‘Expert In A Dying Field’.

“Linear progression is an illusion,” Stokes says. “What life really is is maintenance. But you can find meaning in the maintenance.”

The band’s new single ‘No Joy’ addresses Stokes’s experience with SSRIs. “It’s about anhedonia, which, paradoxically, was there both in the worst parts of depression, and then also when I was feeling pretty numb on my SSRI,” she says. “It wasn’t that I was sad, I was feeling pretty good. It was just that I didn’t like the things that I liked. I wasn’t getting joy from them. It’s very literal.”

The dates in full read:

SEPTEMBER
17 Button Factory, Dublin, IE
18 Button Factory, Dublin, IE
20 Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
21 SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow, UK
22 Project House, Leeds, UK
24 O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
25 XOYO, Birmingham, UK
26 Roundhouse, London, UK
27 CHAL, Brighton, UK
29 Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
30 Le Trabendo, Paris, FR

OCTOBER
1 Botanique, Brussels, BE
3 Kantine, Cologne, DE
4 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
5 Knust, Hamburg, DE
7 Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm, SE
8 Parkteatret Scene, Oslo, NO
9 Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, DK
11 Lido, Berlin, DE
12 Strom, Munich, DE
13 Plaza, Zurich, CH
15 Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, ES
16 Nazca, Madrid, ES
17 LAV, Lisbon, PT
30 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
31 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA

NOVEMBER
1 Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville, TN
3 The Studio At The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
4 Emo’s, Austin, TX
6 The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ
7 The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
8 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
9 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
12 Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA
14 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
15 The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
16 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
18 Metro Music Hall, Salt Lake City, UT
19 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
21 The Truman, Kansas City, MO
22 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN
23 The Salt Shed, Chicago, IL
25 Globe Iron, Cleveland, OH
26 Roxian Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
28 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
29 Beanfield Theatre, Montreal, QC

DECEMBER
1 Royale, Boston, MA
2 Royale, Boston, MA
3 Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
5 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY
6 Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
7 Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
9 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
10 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.