CAK157 The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 Toro Y Moi and six months later my

and six months later my best friend died in an accident

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

the biting phrase now a hex

arriving somewhere more ethereal than Naomi’s earlier work while still maintaining her warm songwriting

and responsibilities become inescapable

CAK157 The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 Toro Y Moi and six months later myClick 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