Already road-tested, and rightfully deemed -worthy, I’m Not Getting Excited – a second to surface from The Beths’ forthcoming sophomore full-length, Jump Rope Gazers – proves a perhaps aptly skittish listen: its pulse as pacy as that of a freshly post-pubescent approaching CBGB’s notoriously awninged entrance; its riffs fizzing with the kind of energy that’s hard to come by these days; its stop-start dislocations niftily juxtaposing an otherwise relentless rhythm section. Perfectly encapsulating a scarcely suppressed exhilaration therefore, similarly (and somewhat contradictorily), Elizabeth Stokes vivaciously sings of “vital signs … fading” amid Songs for the Deaf-ening solos and subtle intimations toward the New Zealanders’ jazzy geneses, as the quartet turn in another truly essential indie-pop masterpiece. As for Jump Rope Gazers on the whole, well, let’s just say we’re becoming increasingly excited for July all of a sudden…
Jump Rope Gazers is available from July 10th via Carpark Records.