She Keeps Bees
Eight Houses
A voice belonging to Jessica Larrabee of She Keeps Bees has reached through my speakers and given me a hug. It was deep and yet trembling in the form of the absolutely stunning, "It Is What It Is". It ran its fingers through my hair. Stroked the hair on my chest. Scratched my chin like a cat. It held my hand and took me on a late night walk. We rode bikes to lunch. We laughed throatily at old episodes of Monty Python while laying our bodies' angles congruent and comfortable. I think I'm falling in love with Jessica Larrabee's voice.
She Keeps Bees' Eight Houses is a ridiculously mellow yet sultry tonic. It's sauce is heavy and lowdown but the kind of down and out that inspires one to soar. I just unbuttoned the bottom button of my work polo, bros.
This is an album for the dark. Or for the alone. It fit right in both times I listened. Both times I was sans clothing on my lower extremities. Except for some argyle socks. The first listen was through my headphones, and I willingly let Jessica Larrabee take me away like fucking Calgon. I might as well have been in a bubble bath.
The second time I was sliding (in my argyle socks) across the tiled kitchen floor putting away dishes and washing the new dirty ones that take their place in a never ending cycle of shits gotta get done tho. It was such a good soundtrack that when the dishes were stacked and dripping, I went on. Wiping down the counters. Ajaxing the sink. Getting the water stains from around the electric stove coils. Scrubbed the hand-worn fridge door handle. I was lost in thought, lost in sound, lost in beauty and soul… and high as Fuck.
Bees and birds and flowers and nests and pollen and penises and vaginas, bros. I want to roll around in a fertile field during a desert wildflower bloom. And lay there til the same alkali wasteland devours the beauty and leaves me withered on its crevassed visage. This is how She Keeps Bees gives me the feels. It's their sound. I could say like Nora Jones 69ing with Sharon Jones, but I like the idea of it sounding like me making love to the desert seasons way better.
She Keeps Bees is Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant and they're from New York. She Keeps Bees are girthy, soulful, haunted ballads punctuated by fretful bridges of solid blue rock. She Keeps Bees are slow and steady. They win the race.