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THE DOOR

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the fantasy is to believe  “the door is open” messages on a t-shirt the palisades of my life looking out of the window and it’s passing me by separate a habit from a line and bite down your thumb inside my mouth again this time it’s real and it never ends i just need a reaction  but the door is opening now fantasy is a season only now can i look  the mind, it breaks for a reason that was all it took  simple is the cavernous decay  of the night when we’re apart a winter locked inside a car  i never left for all that’s worth  the shock of learning my new spot and it’s a shadow on my heart  it’s a shadow on my heart it’s a shadow on my heart
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commit to your con  i’ll wait  my number called  an eternal state a comedy that i can’t see  cut through the fog  permanent dilation mass intimidation  carefully avoiding promises  and i lie  through my teeth and my eyes  through my bones walking through the final act  i never think twice  i keep it on my back  unfortunate   an age of debt  i take in the ground  creep around the halls i know it all comes back to bite  believers don’t fight or sweat through the night but I do i got no energy anymore  i know the door is closing on me

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Six months on from the release of their critically-acclaimed fourth album, ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, Philadelphia trio SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE closeout 2021 with brand new 7” THE DOOR, comprising two previously-heard but never physically released songs in “THE DOOR IS OPEN” and “THE DOOR IS CLOSING”.

The 7” is led by “THE DOOR IS OPEN”, a 2020 single that marked a new chapter for the band ahead of the release of ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH. The song “continues to defy definition”, Stereogum said upon its initial release, before adding: “It’s amazing that they made such a short track feel like such a dreamy journey.”

It’s backed by “THE DOOR IS CLOSING”, a bright and skewed gem of a track that was originally released earlier this year via Through The Soil, a charity compilation that benefited the NAMI COVID-19 Mental Health Support Fund.

Whether opened or closed, THE DOOR is a bold reminder of SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE’S many layered and colourful ideas. It also ribbon-ties a brilliant 2021 for the band, one which saw ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH labelled as “an intensely beautiful, intensely difficult record” by Pitchfork, a “sprawling odyssey of haunting dissonance and blissful euphoria” by Flood Magazine, and a "storm of sound with a deep humanity coming through” by Fader.

Digital Release Date: November 9th, 2021
Physical Release Date: January 21st, 2022

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released November 9, 2021

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