The latest offering from Brooklyn duo, She Keeps Bees, is the result of a timely seclusion in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Holed up in a log cabin together, Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant recorded Dig On in November of last year, the third full length album from this twosome. Be warned, if you like your music complicated, filled to the brim with miscellaneous instruments and imbued with wordy and cryptically meaningful lyrics, then this is not the album for you. Dig On is gritty, raw, blues infused rock at its best. Earthy and right back to basics, it’s a refreshing find and...
The music industry has become a fickle mistress over the past 20 years. Gone are the days when a band can be attached to a label for years before one of their many releases becomes an out and out hit. Nowadays, you have to have a number one record, a platinum selling album and a clothing range to be considered a success. Artists and bands need to make a statement; a bold debut that will keep them in the public conscience long after a new trend has come along.
There are however, certain labels who do not buy into this throw away music culture and NAMES are one of those labels. She...
Photos of She Keeps Bees at Dalston Roof Garden on 22nd June 2011. Taken by Lexy Bright.
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