The Beths: Future Me Hates Me (blood and water red and blue vinyl) [CARPARK RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

A limited pressing on "blood and water" red and blue vinyl. The Auckland band's debut made the best-of-2018 lists at NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Bandcamp, Paste and the AV Club, and Paste named them its best new band of the year.

This edition

• "Blood and water" red and blue vinyl
• Limited edition

About the album

The Beths met studying jazz at the University of Auckland, which explains how tight they are, and then decided to make power pop instead, which explains why they're so much fun. Future Me Hates Me, their first album, was produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce in his own studio on Karangahape Road, and Elizabeth Stokes wrote every lyric.

The songs are fast, bright and full of four-part harmonies, but the words are where the charm lives. Stokes sings about crushes, second-guessing and the voice in your head that won't stop narrating, and Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan described her lyrics as "auto-critical logorrhea", which is about the most flattering way anyone has ever said overthinking. "Great No One", the title track and "Uptown Girl" are instant hooks, and "Little Death" might be the best of the lot.

Future you will not, as it happens, hate you for buying it. We've asked.

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Out June 5, 2026 on Carpark Records, a reissue of the 2018 album.