Beth Seymour & The Lizzies: You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head
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Australian Beth Seymour returns with You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head after an prolonged break within the wake of popping out as transgender.
The self-proclaimed busiest lady in punk, Beth Seymour, has been a mainstay of Melbourne’s music scene throughout three a long time. Equal components Brody Dalle, Liz Stokes and Laura Jane Grace, the prolific author/producer and proud trans-woman continues to launch her idiosyncratic model of different music, combining earnest lyricism, power-pop melodies and a punk angle.
Having launched a string of memorable singles already in 2025, Seymour (previously Seymoup) is releasing her first album since 2021’s Tales of Suburban Angst, and the primary to be launched along with her new band, The Lizzies, and beneath her true title.
Seymour produces bittersweet music that units tales of ache, struggling and dysphoria to an upbeat, catchy and danceable rhythm; proving that, whereas we might all really feel terrible, we’d as properly really feel good and look good whereas doing it.
‘I at all times knew I had a narrative to inform,’ Beth explains, ‘it simply took a while for me to grasp that it was the story of Beth. My journey to popping out was lengthy, troublesome and full of ache, and I’m grateful that I lastly have the platform and the chance to talk my reality. I hope my story can assist different people who find themselves struggling to seek out who they’re. On this primary document, I utterly fall to items. On the subsequent, I’ll be becoming the items again collectively.’
You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head is the primary two of data that inform her life story, with this quantity specializing in Beth’s struggles with id or, in her phrases, her ‘breakdown’.
The album hits the bottom operating with Hellboy, detailing Seymour’s wrestle with gender dysphoria. It’s an open and trustworthy begin which doesn’t let. Musically her signature Indie-Punk type mixes Inexperienced Day, My Chemical Romance, and The Lemonheads, suppose lush vocal preparations layered over partitions of overdriven guitars and heart-pounding drums.
With just one observe over 4 minutes in size the document it zips alongside at tempo, typically feeling just like the tracks virtually merge, which works, as you virtually get a really feel for the way it have to be within the artists head at occasions.
You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head offers with points such because the frustration of being compelled to decorate a sure means; the affect that unfavourable feelings have as a neurodivergent particular person and the isolation of the pandemic. It’s a brutally trustworthy evaluation of what’s gone earlier than.
Simply after the midpoint of the album, Music Ruined My Life, the longest observe on the album, initially takes the foot off the gasoline and slows the tempo down, briefly, setting the tone for the remainder of the album. Seymour explains, ‘For the longest time, my songwriting was the one means I knew to specific myself. There are ideas and emotions I wasn’t keen to ever communicate out loud and even admit to myself, however I had already written songs about all of them’.
She continues, ‘Hindsight is 20/20 and, after engaged on myself, this made me ponder whether I actually liked making music or if I used to be truly simply hooked on spilling my deepest, darkest secrets and techniques in the one means I knew how. My transition contextualised numerous my outdated songs for folks, however I’m so grateful that now I even have the phrases to specific what my songs have been about’.
Because the album attracts to a detailed it sees Seymour realising the necessity to take management and revisiting a solo tour on Tasmania and staying in a fully horrible hostel with tattered leopard print bedsheets. I wish to make a joke about it being twinned with Blackpool at this level nevertheless it appears churlish to take action.
You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head closes with Medicine, which sees the artist turning the nook, which has in the end set her on the trail to make this document.
I can’t begin to perceive the challenges that Beth has confronted however I’m positive that many will be capable to, and extra energy to her for being so open and trustworthy about her journey to this point.
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