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On Blush , There’s A Tuesday show off some fantastic songwriting, plus local dub merchants Pitch Black release a collection of top-tier remixes, and American indie folk band Beirut soundtrack a literal circus.
There’s a modern strain of indie-pop which straddles the line between manicured sounds designed for mass appeal and something rougher around the edges.
There’s A Tuesday, who emerged from Ōtautahi Christchurch around 2020, certainly fits this category, but happily don’t shy away from that second part.
The band is led by dual singers Nat Hutton and Minnie Robberds, whose voices are preternaturally well-suited. They sometimes alternate, sometimes harmonise, and sometimes sing in unison, saving their most heavenly choral arrangement for the final track ‘Bad Things’.
Blush is full of fantastic songwriting: the bifurcated chorus in ‘Brighton’; an unpredictable central earworm in ‘Margo’; the way Robberds negotiates the line “I’m a nervous mum, no kids, no dog, no front yard” in ‘Water Baby’.
There’s A Tuesday don’t shy away from messy emotions, (making Blush an appropriate name), and their arrangements echo that with music that’s poppy, but not too precise (despite sporting a rock solid rhythm section in Angus Murray and Joel Becker).
The commitment to sounding like a band rather than a studio creation will serve them well in the years ahead.