“I’m told I’m a Miranda,” says drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel. The Beaches are in their Sex and the City era. “I’m a Charlotte, I think,” adds guitarist Kylie Miller. “I don’t wanna be, but I am.” “They’re a mix of Carrie and Samantha,” Eliza asserts about The Beaches’ other two members, guitarist Leandra Earl and vocalist-bassist Jordan Miller.
Despite being toddlers when SJP et al ruled the small screen, very little has changed since the 90s when it comes to the ground covered in a morning-after conversation between four female friends, and Jordan found herself connecting with the iconic four-piece regardless.
Their upcoming third album 'No Hard Feelings' does feel like that — as messy, honest and casual as a catch-up with your nearest and dearest. Even today’s interview takes on a similar quality, as the five of us – The Beaches plus Dork – sit down at a beach bar on Brighton seafront for an Aperol spritz (and an orange wine for Jordan). They’re not hungover, but they do inform us they partied the night before, and will be again at the end of their day of press, at a DJ set in London for the launch of single 'Last Girls at the Party'.
"It’s our debrief with one another about all of our bad choices"
It serves as the euphoric ending to a record that’s otherwise pretty thematically heavy, with its chorus lyric appearing again as the album title. Plus, with the year they’ve had, it would be hard not to include a party song. The idea stemmed from a time they got booted out of a Kings of Leon party, but they haven’t stopped since. One-upping the summer they had in 2024, which included performances at massive festivals Reading & Leeds, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Roskilde and more, this year The Beaches continue their bucket-list ticking with even bigger slots at Coachella, Governors Ball and Osheaga. At the first of those three, the band were one of only two Canadian acts on the bill.
