SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING

Saddle Creek

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Something messed up but organized, just like living in the city where you can hear and process a lot in your mind.

- FINDME RECORDS

about the album

YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING is a record of provocations. It wants you to think it is just normal rock ‘n’ roll music. That it is purely pleasure oriented. But beneath these intentions is a collection of songs that are as complex as ever. The Ravede-led “FOUND A BODY,” is a downtempo smoke cloud of variegated synths. “Found a body,” she sings “No one can touch me.” “SUN SWEPT THE EVENING RED,” starts out disconcertingly chipper, before breaking down into an assault of sludged out guitars, auto-tuned vocals, a flurry of strings. Like all SPIRIT records, It is music made by three distinct voices, written independently and then assembled together. Despite being written all over the globe, with Ravede in Portugal and Schwartz and Wichlin back in Philadelphia, the trio arrived at the same themes: that of the brutality of coming to terms with reality, that of what it means to lie to protect yourself and your heart.

Schwartz says he writes songs more or less in a stream of consciousness. The band listens to very little outside music when working. The result is a record that very much is its own world. Where chaos is carefully organized, where being able to ever actually chill out is totally illusory, a trick mirror. 

prescriptions

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prescriptions: uppers and soma
me-time activities: dance, decluttering, transportation
settle your mind, clean up the mess, and move on to a new destination.

CREDITS

Record Label
Saddle Creek
Composed by
Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede
Mixed by
Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Andy Clarke
Mastered by
Andy Clarke
Genre
alternative, indie, and neo-psychedelia