Consumer Guide Album

The Beths: Jump Rope Gazers [Yellow Dog, 2020]
Inflecting her useful tunes, tender heart, and uncertain hopes for the future with a tart, sometimes breathy incipient twang, Elizabeth Stokes and her three male bandmates add a freshness to their all too durable New Zealand jangle-pop. Love and friendship are sometimes hard to distinguish in Stoke's musical world, so to keep things simple and for that matter durable let's hope she and the lead guitarist who's also her boyfriend have found a tie that binds for a while at least. B+