Spirit Of The Beehive Release Two New Songs + Double Video

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE has released two new songs from their forthcoming album, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING, out August 23rd via Saddle Creek.

Directed by Kelsea Dakota Larson and filmed in rural Appalachia the director notes “My collaborator and spouse Jim and I have been waiting for the right project to film here in rural Appalachia since we moved a few years ago, when we heard these new tracks, we knew this was the right one. We took the titles literally, and wanted to highlight the darkness that can be right under your nose in a beautiful little mountain town, or anywhere really, while outsiders carry on.”

“SOMETHING’S ENDING” is an atmospheric and peaceful set up to the quietly menacing “I’VE BEEN EVIL” accented with bleary-eyed guitars and hushed vocals. The song arrives with a video that features the two songs.

The song follows “LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE,” a genuinely frightening pop track that anchors itself on Japanese City pop samples and a demented news clip of someone screaming.

Softer around the edges than their past, more angular work, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING is generational, an album as emotionally wrought as it is sonically progressive. Their last release, 2023’s i’m so lucky EP, explored the breakup between Zack Schwartz and Rivka Ravede, setting the stage and emotional territory for the band’s fifth record, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING. This latest offering is the most crystallized version of the band’s aesthetic, a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs.

YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING Tracklisting

THE DISTRUPTION (featuring MSPAINT)
STRANGER ALIVE
THE CUT DEPICTS THE CUT
LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE
SORRY PORE INJECTOR
FOUND A BODY
SUN SWEPT THE EVENING RED
SOMETHING’S ENDING
I’VE BEEN EVIL
1/500
DUPLICATE SPOTTED
EARTH KIT

The band recently announced a US tour in support of the album. Kicking off September 24th at Boston’s Brighton Music Hall, the 22-date tour will hit Detroit, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, DC and more before wrapping up November 9th for a hometown show at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer. Tickets for the tour are on-sale now. Support on the tour will include Winter and Kassie Krut (ex-Palm) on select dates.

Find tickets HERE!