beth torrance

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The songs of eighteen-year-old Beth Torrance put you in mind of the recording artists who seem to spring fully formed from nowhere. Whether out of small towns or swanky suburbs, sooty cities or streets of ill repute, they're the singers, producers and songwriters who have, seemingly by osmosis, absorbed the music they love, contemporary and classic, and produced a somehow timeless first clutch of songs that astonish in their ability to knock you flat and then drag you right back up to turn over the tape again.

Beth Torrance-Hetherington was raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand on the banks of the muddy Kaipara, north-west of Auckland, and by the seaside of the coastal township of Thames. Brought up on a steady diet of The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Elliott Smith and Kiss, Beth has produced a soundtrack for her age. In her own words Beth's album features "an almost unreasonable level of layered vocals, sweet harmonies and dreamy reverb, set in a secret garden of guitars and sonics which welcome the listener in like a close friend.”

Beth’s debut long player let's move to the seaside and never feel lonely again evokes a world of whimsy and nostalgia, of teen coming-of-age films and of summer nights and wintery Sunday afternoons. It's released via her Peach Tree Records imprint on cassette (Flying Out, Slow Boat Records) and digital platforms.

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