The Beaches

Canadian outfit the Beaches fuse brash garage pop, glam rock swagger, and girl group edge. The members came together during high school, and their initial sugary punk-pop style hardened into a tougher, more '70s-rooted approach as additional singles appeared. Their debut full-length, Late Show, landed in 2017 and earned a Juno Award. Another Juno followed in 2022 for the compilation Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album). In 2023 the quartet reached the Canadian Albums Chart's Top 100 with their second studio effort, Blame My Ex, which spotlighted the viral track "Blame Brett."

Drawn from the Toronto neighborhood they call home, the brash garage pop unit the Beaches consists of singer Jordan Miller, lead guitarist Kylie Miller, drummer Eliza Enman McDaniel, and keyboardist/guitarist Leandra Earl. As children, the Miller sisters discovered their passion for music: Jordan took up guitar at age six while Kylie began lessons the next year. Around that period their classmate Enman McDaniel first tried drumming on a kit at her grandmother's residence. In 2008 the three started the punk-pop group Done with Dolls alongside guitarist Megan Fitchett, secured a deal with Disney, and issued a self-titled EP in 2009 plus the 2010 singles "I Don't Like" and "Story of My Life." By high school they sought a more mature sound and look, so Fitchett left and Earl came aboard, finalizing the shift to the Beaches. The band surfaced in 2013 via the singles "Loner" and "Absolutely Nothing," then dropped its self-titled EP that May under Raine Maida's production. They followed in 2014 with the self-produced Heights EP. The 2016 single "Give It Up" introduced their '70s-inflected debut album Late Show, which Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw helmed and which reached stores in 2017. The record, along with the single "T-Shirt" that held the Canadian Rock chart summit for nine weeks, secured the band the 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Act of the Year. Afterward they launched their first headlining Canadian tour and issued the Jacknife Lee-produced single "Fascination."

The four-piece maintained momentum through 2019 by releasing the five-track EP The Professional in May and touring North America and the U.K. A second EP, Future Lovers, emerged in 2021, and the combined set Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album) arrived the next year, claiming the Juno for Rock Album of the Year.

In 2023 the group unveiled its second proper studio album, Blame My Ex, which contained the sugary fuzz-pop cut "Me & Me." The anthemic single "Blame Brett" also appeared on the record and spread rapidly on TikTok, lifting it to number one on the Canadian Rock chart and number 21 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay tally. Blame My Ex marked the band's first entry on the Canadian Albums Chart, peaking at number 76.