It’s rare to find a venue as charming and yet obscure as The Old Boot Factory. With Academy venues filling up cities and somehow soaking up the sound, it’s refreshing to find somewhere as vibrant and tonight Sea of Bees gel with the surroundings. The band are the creation of Julie Ann Baenziger and they bring with them a plethora of warm tones to an otherwise barren space.
Her voice cruises through notes, with a drawling style and little diction. Though she hails from the West Coast, there’s something about her voice which fuses Julia Stone with Cerys Matthews, bringing with it the...
Sea of Bees comprises of Julie Baenziger, a folky, country girl with a uniquely fantastic voice. Gently taking you on a journey with almost a whine at times, her voice creates in the listener all sorts of nostalgia – perhaps because of its childlike innocence twinned with the maturity of a musician far beyond her years. Baenziger has an ability to create in her audience a dreamy, ethereal like state from only one listen of her debut album Songs for the Ravens. There are anthems for the intensifying heights of newfound love and beats to the crushing lows of unrequited pain. However, it...
