ARIA Award winners The Waifs emerged from Studio 301 in Byron Bay earlier this year with their seventh studio LP, ‘Beautiful You’ produced by Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Powderfinger). Written between the USA and Fremantle WA, Beautiful You is a collection of songs that merges three separate songwriters into a glorious cohesive musical feast.
The 12 new tracks – four from Donna, three from Josh and five from Vikki – play to the strengths of one of Australia’s most enduring and lauded folk, pop and roots outfits. There’s a familiar mix here of celebration and reflection, combined with that easy musical energy and intuition spawned from so many years of touring, whether in the pubs of rural Australia in the early days or on the road internationally ever since then. Beautiful You boasts abundant choruses, intoxicating instrumental exchanges and joyful harmonies, the characteristics that make so memorable the band’s noughties hits London Still, Bridal Train and Sun Dirt Water.