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Spirit of the Beehive: You’ll Have to Lose Something review – like an arthouse horror movie in sound
Disruptive, disorienting and disturbing, the trio are still making creative leaps on their fifth album, mixing up slacker indie with strange beats and plenty of screaming
The fifth album from this Philadelphia/Portugal-based trio opens, fittingly, with a track called The Disruption: this is a band known for in-song disturbances, where genres and vibes giddily supersede each other. Highlight Let the Virgin Drive’s gospel intro prefaces an ingeniously jarring combination of robotically Auto-Tuned croon and country-inflected shoegaze, before giving way to fuzzy spoken-word soundscape and more screaming. There is a thread of true-crime horror – Let the Virgin Drive alludes to a serial killer; Something’s Ending opens with the monstrously whispered line “They pulled another one out of the river”; another track is titled Found a Body.
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