"Who cares what the question is when all your love's in messages?"
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Both today and tomorrows entries contain unabashed sixties retro revival as enthusiastic as it is lackadaisical in it's kicked-back, hippy shuffling. Octopus, which was released in the UK last year, was finally given a proper stateside rollout this year, albeit as Band of Bees. The group from the smallish Isle of Wight recorded their sophomore release in the too-fabled-to-be-fabled anymore Abbey Road studio. The Bees have in fact been appropriately dubbed a hippy tribe by their native media for channeling the psych-era Beatles with a side-dish of weary, sun-battered Byrds. The diversified record shows that this six-piece is just as at home playing with reggae, jazz, classic soul and even a little vaudevillian camp. The end result is an album that sounds like it was recorded by a group of friends who don't take much seriously aside from just having some fun. Sort of a breath of fresh air considering how high-concept most critically lauded records tend to be these days. While I went with the first single here, you'd be doing yourself a great disservice if you didn't track down and also watch their humorous videos for the songs "Chicken Payback" and "Listening Man."
the Bees - download "Who Cares What the Question Is"
visit the band
buy the album
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