Body Type’s second album is a love letter to Body Type. Two of the songs explicitly are, anyway: on lead single Miss the World, lamenting the claustrophobia of a locked-down world, Sophie McComish yelps: “Miss the world but mostly I miss B-O-D-Y-T-Y-P-E”. On Dream Girls, Annabel Blackman delivers in her trademark deadpan: “I used to sit alone in my room writing half-songs / One by one, they came along and we finished them off.”
This tight-knit friendship is the beating heart of the Sydney quartet, and it echoes through the album. Vocal and songwriting duties are split between guitarists McComish and Blackman, and bassist Georgia Wilkinson-Derums – each brings a distinctive style but there’s a uniting aesthetic running through, rounded out by drummer Cecil Coleman.
