Having announced their third album THE GREAT FIRE OF BEATENBERGtowards the end of last year, much loved South African band BEATENBERG release their brand new, fifth single today titled WORTH MORE. In lyricist and frontman MATTHEW FIELD’s words, WORTH MORE“was written with my dear friend and frequent collaborator, the one and only Tresor. The three repeats of the chorus create an interesting structure. I don’t have a shirt with parakeet buttons but I would wear such a thing.” The band also share a tour documentary shot by Javier Lara from their time touring Europe in June last year (2023).
THE GREAT FIRE OF BEATENBERG will be the band’s first album in five years. Produced by Ross Dorkin and Matthew Field from the band and mixed by Nathan Boddy (Mura Masa, PinkPantheress, Gabriels). It will be released on April 5, 2024 via Leafy Outlook.
The band have been enjoying success for the best part of a decade. After the group’s debut album, 2014’s ‘The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg‘ was released, they broke radio chart records, won numerous awards in their native South Africa which led to worldwide touring with performances on ‘Later with Jools Holland‘ and ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon‘. This exposure led to signing a deal with Island Records UK with whom they released their second album, 2018s ‘12 Views of Beatenberg‘.
THE GREAT FIRE OF BEATENBERG is the group’s first offering since ‘On the way to Beatenberg‘, a post-pandemic EP that reconnected the band musically for the first time since they took a hiatus in 2018. Their reformation last year was a success. Pitchfork wrote they were sounding “wiser, softer, and as virtuosic as ever.” They sold out their first headline tour of Europe and the US, culminating in a performance at SXSW in March 2023.
On THE GREAT FIRE OF BEATENBERG, their journey to rekindle their explosive mutual chemistry has come to fruition.
BEATENBERG are made up of Matthew Field (vocals and guitar), Robin Brink (drums), and Ross Dorkin (bass).
