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Robert Day
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Robert Day It's a bit like prog-rock, but actually pleasant to listen to. Favorite track: Harms.
Pierre Conrad
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Pierre Conrad This is the level of electronic manipulation I appreciate. The music/vocals are chopped and layered with purpose as opposed to attempting to obscure poor songwriting. It also helps that the vocals are beautiful yet appropriately understated to contrast with the grand instrumentation you'd expect. Favorite track: Killerers.
Chanta Darra Chuong
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Chanta Darra Chuong Having the main theme repeat over and over against the direction of everyone else really takes the song in an interesting direction. Glad I decided to check this band out. Bless Chris Rosenau and the project he blesses (this band, Pele, and Volcano Choir). Favorite track: HAWAII.
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1.
Killerers 04:42
Best of three Always that way Best is good, what ya needed And finally here Stun gun, or a knife, is good It’s good you came Always nice to see ya Till you go Away
2.
Giibs 05:18
Brave too (You’re gonna need it) Fast as hell You just gotta teach him to shoot Attitude It’s all how you mean it Sad too Cuz this is the best you can do What now? Is that what you meant when you said you were goin? To the sound? Kids are all crazy and likely to lose it Sorry how I wasn’t there when you fell while dancing And the sound Playing right through ya, you said you were goin
3.
HAWAII 05:19
Your name’s the only one for me. I ruined my eyes just to be Awake in time for best of three Made it to the end What do I see? I found the end wish you could see it from here Little clouds Little hills Big lakes A mirror in the trees Armor-less face Made it to the end what do I see CARELESS HARMLESS Where I begin and end First step and the last
4.
For Ghost 03:32
Fighting for The deer lost in the road Staring into the comfort of a quiet car Bracken Braggin ‘bout the size “KING OF THE FOREST” is mine, you said Coming home Humming From a harmless zone But you smell like sweat Did you teach him to shoot yet?
5.
Harms 05:55
And you can’t believe its true Forty years or more and still theres nothing new So you wait And you can’t believe its true But you follow Cuz theres nothing else to do Anyway And it takes a lot to hold But you know that when you’re done you’ll have to go So you wait And it feels a lot like greed And you hope that in the end it couldn’t be That way Anyway
6.
Ruins 06:34 video
Its split in two Inside of neither Probably ain't true Still gotta listen Its a new one You got it right It’s a new one Dark with the night
7.
Murderers 06:47
In seeing through the final rite (of your name I mean) The lights are goin And you had to play tall Its just a name, may be alright to say it soon Feels just right Til all the ones you tell it to fall

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Collections of Colonies of Bees emerged in 1998 as a new project from Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller of Pele. Over the next two decades, Rosenau would remain the band’s one constant member—the anchor and progenitor of Bees’ unmistakable music. An impressive roster of collaborators has joined him over the years. In addition to Mueller, alums include Jon Minor, Jim Schoenecker, Thomas Winceck (Field Report, All Tiny Creatures), and Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso). Longtime Bees fan Justin Vernon even joined forces with the entire band to form Volcano Choir. Each of these iterations, unique unto themselves, are defined by Rosenau’s singular approach to the guitar. Today, Bees consists of Ben Derickson, Chris Rosenau, Daniel Spack, Matt Skemp, and Marielle Allschwang—who have also helped shape the sounds of All Tiny Creatures (Derickson, Skemp), Group of the Altos (Spack, Allschwang), Hello Death, and The Visitations (Allschwang).

It was after a three-and-a-half-year hiatus that Rosenau, Derickson, Skemp, and Spack, in preparation for the Eaux Claires “Troix” Festival, asked Allschwang to lend vocals to the band for the first time. They invented a pedal rig so Allschwang could link her voice to Rosenau’s guitar. Their pedals are connected and timed together, allowing them to create complex layers of rhythms and harmonies, a technique on full display in “Killerers” and the album’s title track, “HAWAII.” She and her pedals even get a solo turn on HAWAII’s haunting A-Side closer, “For Ghost.” “Ruins,” the first single off of HAWAII, exemplifies the album’s fertile intersection of experimental and pop. Spack and Allschwang sing a duet that bears the album’s closest resemblance to a verse-chorus song format, before Bees suddenly submerge the listener into deep sub-bass tones and layers of exhalations. Collections of Colonies of Bees recorded this new material in their own practice/studio space in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documenting a new lineup, a new sonic arsenal, and their first set of lyrics. They are thrilled to present their latest album, HAWAII.

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