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Listened to this the whole thing today on my break at work and I can’t describe the feeling of it. It was a good feeling but also a strange one. A good strange feeling. i love how every project is so different from the one before it.
Aug 25, 2024
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Spirit of the Beehive have such a long trail of essentially perfect albums behind them that their ability to reinvent and outdo themselves with each consecutive release truly blows my mind. You’ll Have To Lose Something is probably their most narratively cohesive record – it loosely follows the romantic split between band members Rivka Ravede and Zach Schwartz – but rather than a retelling of events the album is a meditation on the deep discomfort of uncertainty, the (often unfulfilled) need for interpersonal understanding, and a fear of letting go. Wish I couldn’t relate!
Spirit’s work has always felt defined by a tightrope act between moments of abject horror and moments of transcendent beauty, often occurring in such rapid succession that you can’t distinguish one from the other. You’ll Have To Lose Something contains both the band’s most genuinely terrifying moments (if you turn your headphones up around the halfway point of “Let The Virgin Drive” you can barely hear someone’s guttural scream for help) as well as their most timelessly beautiful numbers.
Spirit of the Beehive remains one of the most fascinating and innovative acts using the traditional “guitar band” setup – their harmony is endless and complex while anchored by a deep understanding of pop structure, their time signatures refuse to stay still for too long, and the production is among the most dynamic and maximalist laid to record this year. They’re a once-a-generation talent with an uncanny ability to mine the darkest undercurrents of the human psyche and craft something fresh, something beautiful, and something surprisingly, disarmingly hopeful out of it. To many more!
Dec 30, 2024
this is fucking mental magic witchcraft out of this world. it has an alex g sense/feeling, like dean blunt but more upbeat (?) what dreams & childhood would sound like in a song. probably what having a cat purring next to you feels like or falling out of a coconut tree. i’d recommend listening to their song ‘Ef’ first so you can get the vision and then their latest album release
highlights
- police scanner
- embarrassed dog
- unifying thought
Jul 26, 2024
pulldrone ambient is soooo in for 2025!! i didn’t expect this album to emotionally touch me as much as it did, but, especially the last three songs, i find myself coming back to. it feels like the sound of becoming and change somehow, although i don’t know what it’s about. i think a lot of her stuff is quite self-determinable though, so im trying to find as much beauty in this one as possible..
Jan 15, 2025
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Don’t be that person. Mf got a banana and a Celsius, something is going down and they need to make a quick exit. You got mad vegetables anyway, let the cashier breathe a little before they struggle to remember how to ring up them green onions you copping.
Mar 19, 2025
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I have no context at all but I love it. Feels like I’m missing out but that’s alright it’s just good to hear somebody having a big ol belly laugh and enjoying this shit while we’re breathing.
Mar 17, 2025
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I just want to show love to the ELITE Bagel. Whoever was the freak that was like “hear me out let’s put blueberry’s in the dough”, I know they were looking at you crazy but you knew you had a hit on your hands.
Mar 3, 2025