The band’s shape-shifting compositions create a forward momentum well suited to a journey through different levels of Hell on Earth.
The outstanding album from the Philadelphia electro-psych trio is reclusive, cryptic, late-night paranoia music. Their oblique songs can evoke an entire landscape of feeling in very few words.
After establishing themselves as one of the most unique acts on the indie-rock landscape for three albums in a row, it’s heartening to see Spirit of the Beehive take their music even further.
The trio seems more determined and passionate in how they concoct their witches' brew of ideas, knowingly aware of how the plot unfolds while convincing us that anything kept a secret doesn't matter.
Spirit of the Beehive's unsettling compositions are not for casual listening. On ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, every fragmented idea is thoughtfully ripped apart and stitched back together with the gusto of a delirious genius.
Depending on your tolerance for a very knowing kind of fourth wall breaking, and for Spirit of the Beehive’s generally hyperactive approach, ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH will be an album you either love or hate (most likely both).
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE make willfully unorthodox music and seem to dare listeners to keep up with them and make sense of their art, but those who make the effort are rewarded by the band's unbridled creativity and warped yet radiant sense of optimism and excitement.
Spirit of the Beehive's sonic mayhem makes up for some occasionally lackluster songwriting.
Spirit of the Beehive takes you on a sonic highway of left turns and fractured noise to lure you into dead ends and unsolvable mysteries—because ultimately ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH is about the journey, not the destination.
I was really hoping I would enjoy this record. I’ve been in the mood for some more unconventional music lately and the highly rated reviews had made me very excited. However, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE missed the mark and didn’t manage to leave any sort of impact with me on “ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH”.
You’ll probably notice that this review is much shorter in comparison to other reviews I’ve been writing lately, and to be honest that’s because ... read more
This is one of those ones where you listen to the whole thing and you're like... wait, what? And then you listen to it again... and then a third time, and you're still confused as to whether you liked it or what even happened at all, with brief passages that snap in and out of sense, then dissolve into a bowl of distortion.
Users are getting things so wrong this year lol. Not the best of the year, but shouldn’t be struggling to stay green, sheesh!
não curti tanto
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melhores: THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN'T DO - GIVE UP YOUR LIFE
piores: RAPID & COMPLETE RECOVERY - IT MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME
1 | ENTERTAINMENT 2:44 | 72 |
2 | THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN’T DO 2:59 | 83 |
3 | WRONG CIRCLE 2:51 | 70 |
4 | BAD SON 2:51 | 73 |
5 | GIVE UP YOUR LIFE 2:54 | 73 |
6 | RAPID & COMPLETE RECOVERY 4:01 | 75 |
7 | THE SERVER IS IMMERSED 2:49 | 81 |
8 | IT MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME 2:38 | 72 |
9 | WAKE UP (IN ROTATION) 2:56 | 76 |
10 | I SUCK THE DEVIL’S COCK 6:40 | 78 |
11 | DEATH 3:18 | 73 |
#7 | / | Beats Per Minute |
#9 | / | No Ripcord |
#9 | / | Paste |
#12 | / | Our Culture |
#17 | / | Gaffa (Sweden) |
#21 | / | Exclaim! |
#22 | / | SPIN |
#27 | / | Stereogum |
#28 | / | Pitchfork |
#29 | / | The Alternative |