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Eight Houses

Eight Houses

Vinyl

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  • Release Date: 22/09/2014
  • Barcode: 4260064999610
  • Edition: Album
  • Genre: Rock
  • Label Family: BB Island
  • Subgenre: Blues Rock
Eight Houses

Eight Houses

Album

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DESCRIPTION

10th Anniversary Special Edition.Sparkling Starlight Vinyl (=silver sparkle on black vinyl), thick cardboard sleeve, fold out poster inlet w lyrics and downloadcode postcard, w/ access to a 1-hour podcast. Features Sharon Van Etten. This album is a slow grower and even after 10 years, this dark work by the New York duo still sounds fresh, is touching and overall astonishing. Originally released in 2014 through the BB*ISLAND label the long out-of-print vinyl will be reissued as a special limited edition. Pressed on "Sparkling Starlight" vinyl and housed in a deluxe cardboard jacket, it comes with a folded poster incl the lyrics and a postcard with a download code. The download includes the album tracks and an exclusive 1-hour interview podcast with She Keeps Bees. Considering how controlled the chaos is on Eight Houses, a record that's ruptured by riffs and rattled by rhythms without leaping straight off the rails, it's tough to imagine a time when Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant didn't finish each other's sentences, creatively and personally. But that's how She Keeps Bees began: with LaPlant bashing a borrowed kit (including a garbage-picked floor tom) atop a step-ladder and Larrabee directing the dark solo recordings she began soon after moving from Philadelphia to Brooklyn. "We grew together slowly," adds Larrabee, "like a tree. It felt powerful with him behind me. Nothing really clicked until I met Andy." That dynamic became more pronounced with each passing record, peaking with the self-produced songs of Nests and Dig On, the latter of which expanded the pair's minimal sound with bass parts and synths. Now joined by an outside producer (Rare Book Room's Nicolas Vernhes) and guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz, She Keeps Bees revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls. ".Hitherto visceral New York duo discover and deploy the power of subtlety.In all, a fiery triumph" - MOJO, UK

TRACK LISTING

  • 1: Feather Lighter
    2: Breezy
    3: Owl
    4: Both Sides
    5: Burning Bowl
    6: Radiance
    7: Wasichu
    8: Greasy Grass
    9: Raven
    10: Is What It Is
  • ADDITIONAL DETAILS

  • Number of Discs: 1
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