The Bees - Every Step's A Yes
The Bees (A Band of Bees in the U.S.) - We're not quite sure how a groovy (in every sense of the word) band like The Bees can make something quite so nostalgically pastoral sound equally as fresh and like today, man, but we'll take their dreamy psych-folk -- with all of it's early Pink Floyd, Love, The Monkees and Laurel Canyon acid strum-fest influences -- with the retro flashback attitude it means to invoke...released a year ago in the U.K., the fourth album from The Isle of Wight band finally washes up on these shores (with six bonus tracks) // Release: Every Step's A Yes (November 8, ATO) // Sounds like: a great soundtrack to a 60's bell-bottomed hippie travelogue movie...frontman Paul Butler leads the six-man crew through some jangle-backed Mamas-and-Papa offspring harmonies and lyrics like "don’t you know you love it when the sunshine falls in"..."a total joy" raves Pop Matters...
Quote: “The record’s still a mixed bag, but there are more skippy bits with elements of artists like Van Morrison. We all embraced the freedom in rhythm and bass and you can definitely hear that in the songs. Many of the tracks kind of follow a South American groove, which I guess is partly down to my time spent in the Amazon Rainforest, after a gig producing Devendra Banhart’s new album took me to the States. It was all pretty amazing.”-- Paul Butler // What we like: we could easily use The Bees to segue from Fleet Foxes to Midlake..."Silver Line", like most of Step, doesn't really strut as much as it saunters, a mellow buzz (they are The Bees, after all) on a warm, sunny day...the perfectly named "Pressure Makes Me Lazy" is a zither-meets-Caribbean bongwater dreamscape with a little umbrella hanging over its rum-soaked side...
The Bees - "Silver Line" (from Every Step's A Yes)
The Bees - "I Really Need Love" (from Every Step's A Yes)
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