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Theirs is the music of immersion, of confrontation, the kind that makes a listener stop and wonder, “How are they even \u003ci class=\"\"\u003edoing \u003c\/i\u003ethat?” And as the years wear on, that sense of bafflement has made room for SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE to quietly but steadily ascend, with their most recent album, 2018’s \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eHypnic Jerks\u003c\/i\u003e, leaving them poised on the precipice of wider recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn April 9th, 2021 SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE released their fourth album and Saddle Creek debut, \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eENTERTAINMENT, DEATH\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThe album signals new chapters for the band on multiple fronts, being the first to feature their new three-piece lineup, as well as the first to be entirely self-recorded and produced. Guitarist\/vocalist Zack Schwartz and bassist\/vocalist Rivka Ravede are now joined by new member Corey Wichlin, a multi-instrumentalist who relocated from Chicago to the band’s home territory of Philadelphia last year. In the spring of 2020, the trio began to write their new album at a distance by emailing files back and forth. “The process of making this album was basically the \u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eexact opposite of our experience creating \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eHypnic Jerks\u003c\/i\u003e,” Schwartz explains. “We had to record that in seven days, because that was the studio time we had, whereas \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eENTERTAINMENT, DEATH \u003c\/i\u003ewas made over the course of three, four months.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn abundance of time wasn’t the only difference. Recording remotely offered the band an incentive to experiment with new possibilities for their sound, resulting in an album that is unlike any SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE has released before. Once the band finished recording and mixing the album digitally, they mastered it to tape, lending the collection a textured, dimensional quality. “We knew we wanted to use some new instrumental elements on this album,” Wichlin says. “We're not going fully electronic,” Schwartz adds, “But guitar, bass, drums just get kind of monotonous.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eENTERTAINMENT, DEATH\u003c\/i\u003e doesn’t cohere in a single, unifying theme, the band samples old obscure commercials throughout, many of which guided the process of writing a song instead of serving as an appendage. Schwartz describes his songwriting process as a stream-of-consciousness, while Ravede asserts that she doesn’t typically write vocal parts with any specific intention in mind. “\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eWhen I write, the narrative usually doesn’t present itself until after the song is done. And even then, it depends on how the listener interprets the words,” she reflects. Regardless of how dreamlike SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE’s lyrics can be, reality rears its head throughout \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eENTERTAINMENT, DEATH\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album isn’t a metamorphosis, it’s simply the newest iteration of a longstanding project. “There’s a line in the Bee Gees documentary that I think applies to us. I’ll paraphrase: ‘We may not have always connected, but we always stuck around,’” Ravede says. 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They’ve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rock’s weirdest and best deconstructionists. 2018’s \u003ci\u003eHypnic Jerks \u003c\/i\u003ewas a study in noise punk sampledelia. It was a breakthrough for the band. 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It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs. More often than not, it sounds like listening to a walkman from inside of a hurricane, like the YouTube videos you’d watch in bed for 18 hours straight after you break your wrist from a skateboarding accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal in making \u003ci\u003eYOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING \u003c\/i\u003ewas to soften out some of the edges. “Less hard left turns,” says Wichlin. “We wanted to make something intentionally less antagonistic,” he jokes. In practice, this means the record has slightly fewer drastic arrangement changes, and it is more stripped down. Take “I’VE BEEN EVIL,” one of the newest songs on the record, as one such offering. It is straightforward in that its tempo is consistent, in that the song keeps us in the same place. It does not digress. It holds itself steady, with bleary-eyed guitars and hushed vocals. The song is weary, the song is a whisper. The utterance “I’ve been evil,” is like the shrug of a shoulder, a \u003ci\u003eso what, ha ha.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLess straightforward is the sublime “LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE,” a genuinely frightening pop track that anchors itself on fucked up Japanese City pop samples and a demented news clip of someone screaming. The song was originally written around the time the band was touring \u003ci\u003eENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, \u003c\/i\u003eand took a few years to fully flesh itself out. It is like staring into the sun, like waking up in a body bag. “It’s about unrequited love and making up a situation or whole life in your head,” says Schwartz of its thematic underpinning, “The other person finally ‘sees you’ and your ‘problems are solved,’ but they aren’t, really.” The song hiccups and warbles — you can hear the tape hiss, the instability, how it kind of feels like the whole song might get sucked into a black hole’s event horizon. “Heaven is a lie\/cause you are earthly\/and you’re alive,” Schwartz sings at the song’s outset.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING \u003c\/i\u003eis a record of provocations.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIt 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.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eSchwartz 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. 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