SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING
60--100
Northern Transmissions が満点
Following the critical success of Entertainment, Death, Spirit of the Beehive's 2021 Saddle Creek debut, bandmembers Zack Schwartz and Rivka Ravede ended their relationship. They addressed this with I'm So Lucky, a 2023 EP that felt relatively stripped-down compared to their erratic usual work. The full-length You'll Have to Lose Something further reflects on lost love and its aftereffects, and its constantly shifting arrangements mirror a state of uncertainty and conflicting emotions. As ever, the band make willfully contradictory music that darts between genres and embraces jarring contrasts. Opener "The Disruption" starts out as fuzzy psych-pop before breaking into an intense shouted/rapped section about existential dread. "Stranger Alive" begins with the sort of heavily processed, textural production the band have become known for, with horn samples swirling around the edges, then spikes with sugary energy when it switches into a brisk indie pop rhythm. "The Cut Depicts the Cut" has an industrial rap verse that downshifts into a slow but not quite sludgy part, and "Let the Virgin Drive" places awkwardly emotive Auto-Tune vocals front and center during key moments.
＠フィラデルフィア
2014年に結成
5th
