Two years since the release of their near-unanimous critical favorite Sunshine Hit Me, A Band of Bees grace us with their second outing Free The Bees. True to form, the band return with another hodgepodge of '60s psychedelia, '70s garage-rock '80s soul and '90s electronica; the resulting sound so innovative you'd swear it was produced years in the future from the depths of outer-space.

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Deep in the idyllic countryside on the Isle of Wight, a slew of sounds emanate from within a small shed. The breezy summer sounds are a stark contrast to the UK wind and sporadic showers that pepper the island. Is that the smell of tropical flowers and fruits mixed with the familiar odor of Jamaica's finest import or just our imagination? It sounds like a water balloon fight between Paul McCartney and Wings, The Specials, Pink Floyd, The Stooges and The Beach Boys, with Lee Scratch Perry officiating, but i...   [ read more ]

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Collections of Colonies of Bees sweep in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime and soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica. Their CD Birds is joyous, epic minimalism in exquisite registration, a sound that is dazzling and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb.

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