Body Type’s third album, Tally has arrived, via Poison City Records (AU/NZ) and p(doom) (ROW).
Marking ten years together for Sophie McComish, Georgia Wilkinson-Derums, Annabel Blackman and Cecil Coleman as Body Type, Tally is the sound of a band maturing and taking stock, but where wit and playfulness still reign supreme. Here, the everyday bits of life — taking a lift up to a boyfriend’s apartment, divvying up a bill — are transformed into sublime and surreal thrills.
Partially inspired by sculptor, painter and printmaker Louise Borgeois, Tally marks the first time the band has worked with a producer, helmed by Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa (Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon) and recorded in LA at Velveteen Laboratory Studios in the aftermath of the 2025 fires. The charged landscape of the city seeped into the record through warped instrumentation, swirling, multilayered vocals and Lynchian imagery.
Tally is a luminous rock record, chronicling mundanity’s mystical implications, the deformations of romance and love’s confounding elasticity. The mental twists of love—the sacrifices we make, the boundaries we push—are a constant throughout the record. Elsewhere, absurdity is the order of the day, combining big, jagged riffs, moody post-punk and 60s pop into Body Type’s most self-assured album yet.
Consider the singles: ‘And What Else’ – a bratty, bittersweet call-and-response anthem about the pleasures and pitfalls of fishing for compliments; ‘Sick Bag’ explores the pains of holding onto a doomed relationship through a series of glorious, grotesque images, while ‘Mulberry’ is a rollicking marvel of free-association from purple fruit to Prince, bruises and the heavens.
Elsewhere, ‘Tally’ is a hilarious, Pavement-inspired lament, awash with wry retorts and shouts, on the humiliation of trying to fetch money off a friend who owes you. And still, after all this time, Body Type dabbled in a first, with the menacing and angular ‘Eye Is A Mouth Is A Face’ – their first song written entirely collaboratively. In it they tackle the inextricability of repulsion and desire, with lyrics informed by Bourgeois’ psychoanalytic, text-based works.
Where their keen adoration of Feminist text and history never falters, and with reinvention at the heart of each release to their name, Tally is Body Type as observational and gloriously off-kilter as ever. After all, is anything more head-spinning, more baffling, than the relentless movement of time and life around us?
Release: July 24th, 2026, Poison City Records / p(doom)