SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE // YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING - LP [COLOR] / TAPE

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Available on 12" Opaque Olive Green vinyl or cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. THE DISRUPTION 03:05
2. STRANGER ALIVE 02:47
3. THE CUT DEPICTS THE CUT 02:58
4. LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE 03:24
5. SORRY PORE INJECTOR 04:52
6. FOUND A BODY 03:18
7. SUN SWEPT THE EVENING RED 02:41
8. SOMETHING'S ENDING 01:39
9. I'VE BEEN EVIL 02:34
10. 1/500 02:42
11. DUPLICATE SPOTTED 03:50
12. EARTH KIT 04:34

Text excerpt by Saddle Creek:

"...This latest offering is the most crystallized version of the band’s aesthetic, a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs. More often than not, it sounds like listening to a walkman from inside of a hurricane, like the YouTube videos you’d watch in bed for 18 hours straight after you break your wrist from a skateboarding accident.

The goal in making YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING was to soften out some of the edges. “Less hard left turns,” says Wichlin. “We wanted to make something intentionally less antagonistic,” he jokes. In practice, this means the record has slightly fewer drastic arrangement changes, and it is more stripped down. Take “I’VE BEEN EVIL,” one of the newest songs on the record, as one such offering. It is straightforward in that its tempo is consistent, in that the song keeps us in the same place. It does not digress. It holds itself steady, with bleary-eyed guitars and hushed vocals. The song is weary, the song is a whisper. The utterance “I’ve been evil,” is like the shrug of a shoulder, a so what, ha ha.

Less straightforward is the sublime “LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE,” a genuinely frightening pop track that anchors itself on fucked up Japanese City pop samples and a demented news clip of someone screaming. The song was originally written around the time the band was touring ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, and took a few years to fully flesh itself out. It is like staring into the sun, like waking up in a body bag “It’s about unrequited love and making up a situation or whole life in your head,” says Schwartz of its thematic underpinning, “The other person finally ‘sees you’ and your ‘problems are solved,’ but they aren’t, really.” The song hiccups and warbles — you can hear the tape hiss, the instability, how it kind of feels like the whole song might get sucked into a black hole’s event horizon. “Heaven is a lie/cause you are earthly/and you’re alive,” Schwartz sings at the song’s outset.

YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING is a record of provocations. It wants you to think it is just normal rock ‘n’ roll music. That it is purely pleasure oriented. But beneath these intentions is a collection of songs that are as complex as ever..."

Artist : SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Label : Saddle Creek

CAT no : LBJ-369