We’re Already Gone is the follow up LP to the Beautiful Girls hugely successful 2004 debut, Learn Yourself, in store July 4th, 2005 through San Dumo Records and MGM Distribution. Enjoying rotating as Triple J’s Feature Album from July 1, 2005.

We’re Already Gone expands expectation, in instrumentation, performance and song craft. This record has a strong band emphasis and includes a stack of extra coloring. Keyboards, a brass section, melodica and harp solos move the album forward. The rhythm sections time spent (nearly four years), on the road is evident. It swings. Like their previous releases, We’re Already Gone follows the bands stripped back ideal. It is a raw album. Here room sound is dominant, it’s the sound of a band playing together. It is also a collision of styles. And though it does occasionally dip into the same pool of influence as former material, the similarities aren’t strong.

The songs, for the most part, are darker, with more miles behind them – though there are still the trademark moments of melodic beauty (Let’s Take The Long Way and When I Had you With Me). Mostly it is a collision of structure and riff. A rythmic mix of art, dub and rock.

In all of the beautiful girls’ music there is an awareness. This consciousness acknowledges the power of music and all the elements involved. “I love hip-hop for its lyrics and groove.” explains McHugh. “I love blues for its desperation and soul, I love dub for its bass lines. I pretty much listen to a crazy range of music and it all seems natural and beautiful to me. Music has saved my life in a lot of ways. It’s too important to me to take lightly", “A lot of good sounding music is made for some pretty weird reasons, but I think you can tell when something isn’t made with heart and soul,” agrees McHugh. “Regardless of style or content, I think the main thing for me is passion and conviction. Without them it’s just sound”

Produced by Mat McHugh and Ian Pritchett and Noisegate Studios in Castlehill and mastered by Noel Summerville (White Stripes, The Clash) in Transfermationin London, We’re Already Gone is a slightly darker, more mature sounding Beautiful Girls with tinges of reggae sneaking through.

At the moment there’s a lot of Aussie bands giving the frequent flyer miles a nudge in an attempt to get their music heard outside of Australia. The Beautiful Girls are among the frontrunners, having spent the past 18 months on one big, global, never ending tour.

The group – McHugh, bassist Clay McDonald, drummer Mitch Connelly and the latest addition, Brazilian harmonica player Felipe – have toured the USA four times, Japan twice, Canada twice and here in Australia more times than they can remember!

A little bit of history:
In ‘02 the band released Morning Sun, their mini-album. Periscopes the most buoyant song on the release was added to Triple J, the Australian national radio station. Around this time the band had that and other tunes added to a host of surf vids and dvd’s by upcoming surf filmmakers in Australia. And thus began the touring. At this stage it was Australia wide but a pattern was being set.

Good Times - ’03 - was released as a five track limited edition cd. Stock sold out in weeks and the art work and some of the songs appear on The Beautiful Girls Brazilian (The Beautiful Girls), and Japanese (Water), releases.

Learn Yourself, ’04, was a neat combination of roots, hip-hop, reggae, soul and blues. A mess of influences that formed celebration of life. That album (Learn Yourself), was the Beautiful Girls North American debut and on the back of it TBG went to the U.S. It features the radio favourites, Blackbird (the beginning of the bands fascination with reggae did well in Australia and Japan), Music and La Mar. Mason Jennings who toured with the band in the US and in Australia, made a guest appearance on Learn Yourself, featuring on “Freedom (part 2),” another one of the discs stand outs.