SHOW ME THE HONEY

Juicy, sixties inspired guitar, drums, vocals and, of course, Hammond organ.

Over to you Matt Allen of Mojo Magazine.

The Bees - Free The Bees
Four Stars

How Lee Mavers must be grinding his molars.

So steeped in swinging psychedelia and gum-tingling pop melodies is Free The Bees,  that it should arrive coated in a sheen of dust from the 1960's - a studio addition the eccentric Mavers is alleged to have requested during the making of The La's only album.

Certainly The Bees have charm and infectious rhythms in abundance, trading in Lennon and McCartney's gruff vocal harmonies and the spiral hammond organ riffs that informed the Small Faces abrasive swagger.

Of course they'll inevitably draw comparisons to The Coral, but unlike the frustratingly inconsistent Rizla obsessives, this nostalgic mob provide an album of 12 polished gems, including the swoon of Wash In The Rain, Chicken Payback's disco stomp and the balmy jazz guitar flutterings that sprinkle the romantic I Love You.

You'll be charmed.

Charmed. I'm sure.

AGB Rating - Distinction

Comments

[Brett Pee]

Best band that featured the Hammond Organ must be The Charlatans- The English band that is.Featuring 'swirling' vocals and dreamy psychadelic sounds. Whatever they are.