The Beths, with Phoebe Rings, at Royale Boston, Dec. 2, 2025.

“You look beautiful,” Beths lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Liz Stokes said early in the band’s Tuesday night set at Royale.

“We don’t say that to all audiences,” she humorously added.

Given that this was the Kiwi quartet’s second consecutive night in town, I couldn’t help but jokingly wonder if she had said the same to the previous evening’s attendees.

This is — to quote the title of a song performed — a “roundabout” way of saying that last night’s show had sold out so conclusively that a second show was added, in a somewhat disorientating manner, on Monday, i.e., the night before the originally scheduled one.

Exactly half of the songs from the show were drawn from The Beths’ latest gift to listeners, “Straig

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