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SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE have continued to wow the listener and get better with every subsequent release, and their fifth project "YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING" is no exception to that rule. The band offers their most cohesive and cinematic album without compromising their innate ability to experiment with song structure and sonic identity. They'll go from poppy psychedelic rock passage at one moment before breaking the entire thing apart and turning the track into a grizzly ... read more

Super maximalist (cannot stress this enough), bombastic, experimental pop music with a slightly tender and magical feel to it underneath its swaths of excess. Not quite as solid or cohesive as Air Ni Ni from a few years prior, but it scratches a very unique itch that few other albums this year have achieved. Tracks like "Boy's Texture" feel genuinely groundbreaking.