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Track Listings
| 1. I Really Need Love |
| 2. Winter Rose |
| 3. Silver Line |
| 4. No More Excuses |
| 5. Tired Of Loving |
| 6. Change Can Happen |
| 7. Island Lover Letter |
| 8. Skill Of The Man |
| 9. Pressure Makes Me Lazy |
| 10. Gaia |
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After all, "Don’t you just love it when you open your window in spring / don’t you know you love it when the sunshine falls in," is a superb couplet that wouldn't sound out of place on Love's Forever Changes. The music that accompanies the lines is just as heart-warming. Speedy acoustic strumming, Paul Butler's joyous croon: it's enough to make listeners think the UK had a proper summer this year.
Winter Rose is entirely different. Trumpet-inflected reggae crossed with more than a hint of clanging underwater dub? Great stuff. Third song in and there's another change in tack. This time Fleet Foxes are invoked, albeit by way of Simon & Garfunkel. Things get just as wistful for Tired of Loving, which recalls the unfussy melodic wonder of Turin Brakes’ underrated Jackinabox album. Meanwhile, there's some zither-heavy fun with Pressure Make Me Lazy and a scuzzy but loveable closer in Gaia which recalls the band's own breakout cover of Os Mutantes' A Minha Menina.
The cumulative effect of hearing this album reinforces its makers’ songwriting ability (previously cemented on three excellent LPs, particularly 2007's Octopus), but also suggests a new peer group of bands. In 2010 Best Coast, Beach House and Wild Nothing have released beautiful collections made for the emotional and physical wilderness, but which also work as perfect listening for city living. Every Step’s a Yes is a worthy partner to those band's records.
--Lou ThomasFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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The Bees sound has evolved from the garden shed album 'Sunshine Hit Me' with every album release, while still managing to retain the excellent genre blurring multi instrument sound that we all love. You can find the usual reggae, dubby, folk, psychedelia genre spanning sounds all soulfully tied together by Paul Butler's vocals.
'I Really Need Love' is an instant classic, and may have even surpassed 'Wash In The Rain' as my favourite Bees song, proof that the Bees are getting better and better.
As with the light hearted 'Chicken Payback' (Free the Bees), and 'End of the Street' (Octopus), The last track Gaia showcases their experimental side and love of creating original non conforming music.
Lets hope this album brings The Bees more recognition and is not destined for more advertisement backing music.
However, after a few listens it's a winner, in fact every step's a yes (see what I did there?). This is an album that rewards with more listens, the songs are growers and I will definitely still be playing this in a few years, just as I will 'Sunshine' and 'Free The..' (but less so Octopus).
If you enjoyed the first two but thought Octopus was a slight let down, get this. But give it a few plays to warm up.
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