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The Isle of Wight collective have spent the three years since their critically-lauded album Octopus putting together a set of songs that will ensure their deserved ascension to music’s big leagues. Having signed to Fiction, home to the slow-burning success stories of Elbow and Snow Patrol, The Bees have found a tailor-made locale for their eclectic mix of folk-funk, psych-pop and sun-dappled tropicalia. And in forthcoming fourth album, Every Step’s A Yes, they have a long-player channelling those seemingly disparate influences into a fluid, solid whole.
A first taster, Silver Line, will be available to download from NME.com and TheBees.info on Tuesday 20 July. A single and the album follow later in the year.
About The Bees
For a band less than a decade old, The Bees have packed in a lot of highs. They released their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Sunshine Hit Me to critical acclaim in March 2002. Having notoriously recorded those first songs in key Bee Paul Butler’s garden shed, the band decamped to Abbey Road for follow-up Free The Bees two years later. Tours with Oasis and collaborations with Gorillaz followed before the band returned to a new, improved, indoor studio on the Isle of Wight for their third album Octopus in 2007.
When the Bees found themselves label-less a short while afterwards, the band shrunk to a core of three - Aaron Fletcher, Paul Butler and Tim Parkin. In between early sessions for what would become Every Step’s A Yes, Paul stretched his production wings, recording Devendra Banhart’s 2009 album What Will We Be and being introduced to a whole new world of Californian hipsterdom along the way. Back on Bees duty, the new songs drew in Fiction and, after signing in April 2010, the band made their live return at their spiritual home, Glastonbury, before heading back to the studio to finish off Every Step’s A Yes and take a huge step in the evolution of The Bees in the process.
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