CAK157 The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 Toro Y Moi Gerasimos Livitsanos’ bass and Hugo

Gerasimos Livitsanos’ bass and Hugo Stanley’s drums seem to perform commentary and reportage from deeply embedded positions at the front

Originally from the Pacific Northwest with a background in neurobiology

and world-building

The recordings were picked up by an Austrian ethnomusicologist who published them collectively as “Black Elk Speaks”

Cleveland’s Dylan Baldi began writing and recording lo-fi power-pop songs in his parents’ basement

CAK157 The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 Toro Y Moi Gerasimos Livitsanos’ bass and HugoClick here to view the live concert film. The anticipation is there in Elizabeth Stokes solo guitar riff under the opening lines of Im Not Getting Excited: a frenetic, driving force daring a packed Auckland Town Hall to do exactly the opposite of what the track title suggests. As the opener of The Beths Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 expands to include the full band, the crowd screeches and bellows. Its a collective exhalation, in one of the few