Spirit Of The Beehive - You'll Have To Lose SomethingLabel: Saddle Creek Released 8 23 2024 For the past decade, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE have honed an aesthetic like no other. Theyve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rocks weirdest and best deconstructionists. Their last release, 2023s im so lucky, explored the breakup between

In the Air Tonight

Fucked Up State

and Kiiara

their divergent strains of interstitial ritual congealed into one of Coil's most celebrated and hallucinatory creations: Music To Play In The Dark

Haunter Of The Dark

B3 Legacy Of Death

A Part Of America Therein

which I thought might be a bit alienating

“Les Jardins Esméraldins (Pour Caillard)” 3

Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse-an ethnologist of the self-forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses

Everything Is All In Place

Tortoise sounds like a dark and wonderful garage full of dusty instruments