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BETH AND BLUE
release cinematic debut album
TAKE IT ALL

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Launch Show at
The Vanguard, Sydney
– Thursday December 4

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

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PHOTO CREDIT: MCLEAN STEPHENSON

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“Every line delivers care, contemplation and consideration” – RUSSH

Beth and Blue – the collaborative project of solo artists Imogen Grist (Babitha) and Marcus Index – craft songs that ache with beauty, theatricality and slow-burning romance. Their debut album Take It All is out now: a strikingly cinematic and emotional body of work that treats sincerity as rebellion, romance as art, and songwriting as deep, shared devotion.

Listen to TAKE IT ALL album HERE

What began as a chance meeting on a dating app in 2021 has evolved into one of the most compelling new creative partnerships in Australian music. A shared love of duets quickly became a three-year exploration of the love song as meditation – a slow-burn collaboration that’s part rustic idyll, part high-concept melodrama, and entirely their own. “If we hadn’t liked writing songs together and respected each other’s choices, there probably wouldn’t have been a next date,” laughs Imogen.

Within weeks, the now-married couple were writing together, bonding over 60s country, Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, and the aching theatricality of ABBA.

Shaped by long stretches of quiet living outside the city, Take It All draws from 60s country storytelling, 80s power-ballad drama and the mythic grandeur of classic love songs, channelling touchstones like Emmylou Harris, Roxette, Bruce Springsteen and ABBA into something that feels both timeless and daringly heartfelt. The album feels like the culmination of a creative and emotional convergence: two artists, lovers and storytellers discovering a distinct artistic voice that neither could have unlocked alone.

The album’s focus track, ‘A Song About Defeat’, offers a lens into Beth and Blue’s world: a lush, emotionally charged look at the complicated relationship between artist and muse. Hovering between surrender and self-interrogation, it captures the creative push-and-pull that underpins much of the record – the tension between romantic myth-making and everyday vulnerability, between grand gestures and quiet, private reckonings.

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Across Take It All, Beth and Blue lean into that tension with unflinching honesty. The title track, ‘Take It All’, is a sweeping declaration of love that revels in 19th-century-style romanticism – “you’re my ladder to the stars” – while staying grounded in real, lived emotion. ‘Mystery of Chains’ pays homage to the melodrama of 80s power ballads, using the metaphor of willing entrapment in love to explore mutual surrender. Elsewhere, ‘Protection’ began life as one of Marcus’s solo piano pieces before transforming into a duet about intimacy, frailty and the quiet power of mutual vulnerability. ‘I Love You’, deceptively simple in title, becomes a radical act of sincerity – a bold, unfiltered declaration that invites listeners to reconnect with their inner romantic.

Take It All has already begun resonating widely. Recent single ‘‘Mystery of Chains’ continues to gain momentum, added to Double J and FBi Radio rotation, alongside editorial playlisting on Spotify’s Tapestry and Apple Music’s New In Rock and New In Indie. The album also features previous releases Take It All’, ‘Protection’, and ‘I Love You’, which have earned support from RUSSH, Double J, FBi, 2SER, Edge Radio, PBS and triple j Unearthed, further cementing Beth and Blue as one of Australia’s most exciting emerging acts.

There is a cinematic quality not only to the music, but to the way the duo write. Many songs begin with a prompt – What’s the scene? Who’s the character? – and then unfold like miniature films. On ‘All This Time’, they imagine someone on their deathbed contemplating life, love and the things left unsaid. Elsewhere, ‘The Companion’ questions the cynic within, challenging nihilistic views of love and commitment, while ‘Federico’ becomes a love letter to Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.

Though recorded in pockets over a few years across studios and ad-hoc sessions, Take It All is remarkably cohesive. With mixing and additional production by Tony Buchen – who has worked with both artists on their solo projects – the record balances rawness and grandeur. Marching-band drums, cinematic strings and celestial synths sit alongside intimate piano lines and hushed harmonies. The result is a body of work that feels lush but human; epic yet deeply personal.

The gentle isolation of their regional home has shaped Beth and Blue’s pace and priorities. Songs were allowed to simmer over months rather than being rushed to chase online moments. “Everything now is optimised for attention,” says Imogen. “Our songs are slow. If all they do is make someone pause for four minutes and feel something, then that’s enough.”

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The pair prepare to take the project on the road, with a launch show at The Vanguard in Sydney on Thursday December 4, following a run of packed showcases at SXSW Sydney and The Great Escape, and a support slot with The Veils as special guests in Sydney and Melbourne.

For a duo who never set out to make a record – who started out simply trying to impress each other with old country records and lyrics scribbled in notebooks – Take It All is an extraordinary debut. Bold, beautiful and utterly unafraid of feeling too much, it offers a rare proposition in an age of irony and detachment: sincerity as rebellion, romance as art, and songwriting as a shared act of devotion.

BETH AND BLUE
Sydney Launch Show

Purchase tickets HERE

Thursday December 4
THE VANGUARD, SYDNEY NSW

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LISTEN TO ALBUM HERE

TAKE IT ALL
Track Listing:

KNIFE
MYSTERY OF CHAINS
TAKE IT ALL
THE COMPANION
I LOVE YOU 
FEDERICO
ALL THIS TIME
A SONG ABOUT DEFEAT
PROTECTION
NOBODY BUT YOU

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