Bees, The / Every Step's A Yes
Album: Every Step's A Yes   Collection:General
Artist:Bees, The   Added:Nov 2011
Label:Fiction Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-01-01 Pull Date: 2012-03-04
Week Ending: Feb 19 Feb 12 Feb 5 Jan 29 Jan 22 Jan 15 Jan 8
Airplays: 2 1 1 2 2 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 18, 2012: Feral Pop Frenzy
Winter Rose
4. Feb 03, 2012: Time Traveler
I Really Need Love
2. Feb 17, 2012: TimeTraveler
Winter Rose, I Really Need Love
5. Jan 27, 2012: Time Traveler
I Really Need Love
3. Feb 10, 2012: Time Traveler
I Really Need Love
6. Jan 25, 2012: Modern Donkey - Songs about Places
Go Where You Wanna Go

Album Review
MC Dizzy Jackson
Reviewed 2011-12-14
UK band with this, their 4th release. Lots of retro stylings of ’60’s psyche and folk. For fans of CSNY, The Beatles, or just anything ’60’s psyche and folk. Instrumentation of guitar, bass, drums, horns, sitar, keys. Some really, really cool sounds here. I say play any of it. No FCC’s.

*My Favorites*: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14.

1. *(5:39) Mid. Upbeat and feel-good vibes. Great strummed guitar. Sitar, drums, backing vocals.
2. *(5:03) Mid. Ethereal vibe, reggae beat. Percussion, horn, keys. Very cool.
3. (3:40) Mid. Very ’60’s folk. Echoey vocals, harmonizing, guitar, drums.
4. (4:09) Slow. Psychedelic, channeling The Beatles. Big production. Guitar, tambourine, keys, horn, sitar.
5. *(3:18) Mid. Upbeat guitars, harmonizing, a bit of CSNY, ’60’s retro. Easy-going.
6. (3:04) Slow / Mid. Flute?, drums, guitar, bass, keys, harmonizing. Cool.
7. *(3:40) Slow / Mid. Forlorn, a bit trippy with echoey vocals, seems to end with 1:10 remaining but continues on with a string-led epic soundscape.
8. (5:37) Mid. Piano intro, then some mellow psyche / folk with harmonizing. Gets a bit jammy.
9. *(3:33) Mid. Echoey vocals, percussion, guitar, driving gait. A bit subdued. Far out.
10. *(4:26) Mid. Upbeat with background spoken words / vocals, but mostly INSTRUMENTAL. Somewhat of a samba with cool percussion, keys.
11. (2:24) Mid. Upbeat ’60’s folk. Guitar, drums, organ, echoey vocals, backing vocals, harmonizing.
12. (3:17) Mid. INSTRUMENTAL. Funky psyche. Organ, heavy drums, horns. Hip, man.
13. (4:37) Slow / Mid. Solemn with guitar and vocal intro, then band with heavy drum, monotonous guitar.
14. *(4:27) MId. Another version of song #1 and pretty similar.
15. (4:56) Mid. Another version of song #2. A remix, with slight embellishes on organ effects.
16. (2:16) Slow / Mid. Reprise of song #7. Guitar, horn, heavy strings.

Track Listing
1. I Really Need Love   9. Pressure Makes Me Lazy
2. Winter Rose   10. Gaia
3. Silver Line   11. Go Where You Wanna Go
4. No More Excuses   12. The Dink
5. Tired Of Loving   13. The Rip [Live From On Track With Seat]
6. Change Can Happen   14. I Really Need Love [Live From On Track With Seat]
7. Island Love Letter   15. Winter Rose (The Bees Remix)
8. Skill Of The Man   16. Island Love Letter [Reprise]