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i'm so lucky

by SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

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J Delicious and literary

Like my other favorite SOTB releases, it's as wonderful for its moment-to-moment sonic experience as it is for its cohesive, continuous, artful whole, and here, the ear candy runs as sour as its subject.

I love the painting, too; it interacts with the music in a rare way.
Thank you, SOTB!
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shieldz01 Do they ever miss? They've been my favourite band since I stumbled across them a few years ago and this does not disappoint.

Musically I'd say it's a progression from what they did on ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH.. Maybe a bit more weird, more stripped back and more vulnerable sounding but every bit as distinctive. There really isn't another band that sounds like them, no matter what direction they take.

My only complaint about this EP is that there isn't more of it. Favorite track: really happening.
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1.
what do you want to keep? material things? corporeal me? i am a poisoned leaf, bereft of anything; you can come see see me some time see some time, okay? fold the crease around the seam and expose the gap: heaven you were the first to laugh, weren’t you? you were the first to laugh but they warned you it wasn’t built to last nothing is really built to last human debenture you know what you lent her and it’s real take it all make a deal i won’t call and i’m gone 
2.
once a day take the kid to the city center let him out when the streetlights start to flash watch his eyes twitch fingers start to tremor wonder if he’s gonna leave but i never ask let the kid take a hit if he has to, keep the fix in a bag in the bathroom is this really happening? not that it matters nothing, it matters a shame with an internal life in decline for a feeling and a moment in time can i spit in the palm of my hand? we don’t need to make lines in the sand and nobody can make me believe all love does dissolve naturally 
3.
tapeworm 02:17
like a beast on the streets and you can’t secure it like a snake in the grass who defies the laws you couldn’t picture the appetite of tapeworms, eating all and then register the bereaved who are left with nothing the seams run cracks closed by unremarkable hands 
4.
now i feel the shadow of your touch the years return to memory for us but when your head is on the chopping block they all know, they all talk i look at you desperately trying to wake up for me they don’t think we’ll make it there’s a private club near Almond Lake where everything exacerbates a phantom eases in to rapture everything between us is new and all i do is think about you the streets are dark, the air’s on fire i’ll give you what you do desire you give me the same just by looking in your eyes living like a cancer, there’s a question that you’re asking when you finally find the answer bet you’ll wish you never had it don’t dissolve in the water with your hand stretched out to find her in the stillness i’ll remember how you held me when we were together 

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SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE have been making thrilling and beguiling “collage rock” for the better part of a decade. Across four albums, they’ve stretched the boundaries of genre with songs that often abruptly contort from inviting hooks to menacing bursts of noise and sample-based chaos. With their new EP i’m so lucky, the Philadelphia trio of Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede close the chapter of 2021’s ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH with four tracks that count among the most confident, dynamic, and streamlined music of their careers so far. This is the band at its most lucid and emotionally transparent.

Work on i’m so lucky started during a transitional period in the band members’ lives. In the summer of 2022, Schwartz and Rivka ended their romantic relationship after being together for over 10 years. “I don’t know if anybody was sure we would continue doing the band. ” says Schwartz. “But then we sorted it out slowly and we just all wanted to get back to work.” The entire four-song release, recorded at their new studio in Philly, captures all sides of the band. These tracks feel alive and unfussy: a document of a band in control and pushing themselves even further. “We’ve been trying to make some of the newer stuff less maximalist and just focus on what we can accomplish live,” says Schwartz. “It’s not that these songs are simpler: They’re just different and have more space, more room to breathe.”

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released September 1, 2023

Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Zack Schwartz and Corey Wichlin
Mastered by Andy Clarke
Written and Lyrics by Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede
Composed by Zack Schwartz and Corey Wichlin

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