{"id":276244,"date":"2025-08-04T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livemusicblog.com\/?p=276244"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:35:58","slug":"the-beths-mother-pray-for-me-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemusicblog.com\/alternative-indie\/indie-rock\/the-beths-mother-pray-for-me-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beths Unveil Poignant New Single “Mother, Pray For Me” from Upcoming Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Beths <\/strong>– the New Zealand-based quartet of vocalist\/guitarist Elizabeth Stokes<\/strong>, guitarist Jonathan Pearce<\/strong>, bassist Benjamin Sinclair<\/strong>, and drummer Tristan Deck <\/strong>– recently released “Mother, Pray For Me<\/strong>“, the third single\/video from their new album, Straight Line Was A Lie<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>out 29th<\/strong> August<\/strong> on ANTI-<\/strong>.

Following last month’s single, “No Joy<\/strong>“, “kinetic power-pop that blasts her melancholy with sunshine”<\/em> (The Guardian),<\/em> “Mother, Pray For Me” is stripped-down and intensely personal. Over plaintive finger-picked guitar, Stokes’ voice is childlike in its wistful plea for connection. Here, Stokes grapples with the lives her parents have led, their mortality, and how to see them as people who did their best, even when it might not have felt like enough. “I cried the whole time writing it”<\/em>, Stokes reflects. “It’s not really about my mother, it’s about me \u2014what I hope our relationship is, what I think it is, what it maybe actually is, and what I can or can’t expect out of it.”<\/em>

Stokes continues, “My mother is a first gen Indonesian immigrant, and very Catholic. I was born in Jakarta and we moved to Auckland when I was four. I think this song is me trying to understand my relationship with my mum, and her relationship to her faith and with her own mother. It was hard to write. We came up with a full band arrangement for the song, but in the end it seemed to feel the clearest with just me and the guitar. And a bit of organ.”<\/em>

Watch the Video for “Mother, Pray For Me”<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Beths - "Mother, Pray For Me" (Official)<\/div><\/div>
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