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On The Beths' new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes' songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they're also character sketches of relationships and more importantly, their aftermaths. The question that hangs in the air what do you do with how intimately versed you've become in a person, once they're gone from your life? The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. The album's title track InchExpert In A Dying FieldInch introduces the thesis for the record InchHow does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it's over when you can't let go?Inch Stokes asks. InchLove is learned over time 'til you're an expert in a dying field.Inch1 Expert In A Dying Field2 Knees Deep3 Silence Is Golden4 Your Side5 I Want To Listen6 Head In The Clouds7 Best Left8 Change In The Weather9 When You Know You Know10 A Passing Rain11 I Told You That I Was Afraid12 2am Details 1. Expert in a Dying Field 2. Knees Deep 3. Silence Is Golden 4. Your Side 5. I Want to Listen 6. Head in the Clouds 7. Best Left 8. Change in the Weather 9. When You Know You Know 10. Passing Rain 11. I Told You That I Was Afraid 12. 2Am
