The Beautiful Girls are an Australian roots music group founded in Sydney in 2001 by Mat McHugh, Clay MacDonald, and Mitchell Connelly. They have released three extended plays,
Morning Sun (2002),
Goodtimes (2002), and
The Weight of the World (2004), plus five studio albums,
Learn Yourself (2003),
We're Already Gone (2005),
Ziggurats (2007),
Spooks (2010), and
Dancehall Days (2014). The last four albums have all peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Spooks and
Dancehall Days also debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Independent Chart and No. 7&5 on the American
Billboard Reggae Albums Chart, respectively. Their single "I Thought About You" reached No. 60 on the ARIA Singles Chart.