The Beaches at #ONTour/Ribfest in Riverside Park, Guelph, Ontario in August 2017; left to right: Eliza Enman-McDaniel, Jordan Miller, Kylie Miller, and Leandra Earl
Jordan Miller Kylie Miller Leandra Earl Eliza Enman-McDaniel
The Beaches are a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in 2013 by Jordan Miller (lead vocals, bass), Kylie Miller (guitar, backing vocals), Leandra Earl (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), and Eliza Enman-McDaniel (drums). The band released two EPs titled The Beaches (2013) and Heights (2014) before signing to Island Records. In 2017, they released their debut album Late Show, which led to the band winning the 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year.
To follow their debut, they released two further EPs called The Professional (2019) and Future Lovers (2021). A 2022 compilation album Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album) combined their previous two EPs and won that year's Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year. Their second studio album Blame My Ex was released via AWAL on September 15, 2023.
History
Formation and early EPs (2011–2016)
The Beaches performing at Supercrawl, opening for Arkells in Hamilton, On. in September 2014
In their early teens, sisters Jordan and Kylie Miller joined drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel and guitarist Megan Fitchett to form the pop punk quartet Done with Dolls in their hometown of Toronto.[1] The band undertook a tour in 2011 opening for Allstar Weekend,[2] and performed the theme song to the Family Channel teen sitcom Really Me.[2] By 2013, Fitchett had left the group, after which the remaining members added new guitarist Leandra Earl (from Toronto's Little Italy neighbourhood) and renamed themselves The Beaches after the Toronto neighbourhood where the Millers and Enman-McDaniel grew up.[3][4][5] They also adopted a more alternative rock sound[1][4] and released two EPs, The Beaches (2013) and Heights (2014), before signing to Island Records in 2016.
The Professional and Future Lovers EPs (2019–2022)
In 2019, The Beaches released their third EP, The Professional. It was accompanied by the singles "Fascination" and "Snake Tongue".[13] They toured Canada, opening for The Glorious Sons and Passion Pit.[14][15] They were chosen as the opening act for the only Canadian stop on the Rolling Stones' 2019 No Filter Tour.[16] Later that year, they appeared as the on-field pre-game entertainment before the kick-off of the 107th Grey Cup in Calgary. They later announced a 2020 headlining tour of Canada, which was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[17]
In 2021, they released their fourth EP, Future Lovers. This was accompanied by the singles "Let's Go" and "Blow Up".[18][19] The EP consisted of songs originally intended for their forthcoming second album that they had decided to release sooner.[20] They also announced the 2022 Future Lovers Tour, which spanned 20 dates across Canada and featured The Blue Stones as special guests.[21] The band combined their two most recent EPs into a compilation album called Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album), which won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2022.[22][23] Later that year, the band left Island Records and independently released the singles "Grow Up Tomorrow", "Orpheus", and "My People".[24][25][26][27][28]
Blame My Ex (2023–present)
The Beaches announced their second album, Blame My Ex, would be released in September, 2023.[29] They released "Blame Brett", the first single from the album, on May 5, 2023.[29] The song was based on the breakup of lead singer Jordan and Brett Emmons from The Glorious Sons and was co-written and co-produced by Gus Van Go and Lowell.[30] The song went viral on TikTok, leading to an increase of streaming of the band's catalogue and became the bands second number one on Billboard's Canada Rock chart, totaling four weeks in the top position.[30][8][31]
The band embarked on a tour North America in 2023, including a performance at that year's Lollapalooza.[27][32] Due to the success of "Blame Brett", the tour was mostly sold out and the song had introduced the band to a younger audience than their previous work.[33]
Blame My Ex was released on September 15, 2023 via AWAL and peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, the band's first appearance on the chart.[8][30]
