I\u2019m not sure if Wampus Multimedia has in fact become the nexus of all that is fresh and different and indefinably compelling in the independent music universe; I only know that it sometimes seems that way after spinning a disc like the May Bees\u2019 Drop Little Boy<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The May Bees are a Dutch duo consisting of Gregory Orange on lead vocals and guitar and Marzj on drums, backing vocals and keys, with guests Pieter de Koning and Flip providing bass guitar.\u00a0 If that alignment sounds a bit like Jack and Meg White, that\u2019s not a bad starting point in imagining the May Bees\u2019 sound; they definitely tap the same vein of big thrashy garaged-out Zeppelin\/Pixies thump that lies at the core of the White Stripes\u2019 oeuvre.\u00a0 But from that basic starting point, the Bees veer off in all directions at once, steering into the melody line with their engines running hot on an explosive mixture of precision pop craftsmanship and torrents of gut-busting guitar.<\/p>\n
Moments like the hammering punk-pop of \u201cYeah! Come On!\u201d briefly suggest a sweat-drenched Euro Green Day, but just when you might think you have them pegged, the Bees startle with the slow pulse of the extended \u201cMess,\u201d which performs a steady build over a surprisingly compelling seven minutes.\u00a0 And then you\u2019re into \u201cEverlasting Lover,\u201d which matches fat guitars, bells and heavily distorted vocals into a squalling blast of Frank-Black-on-acid musical mania.<\/p>\n
That little triptych is the core of the May Bees\u2019 argument for, as the Wampus one-sheet aptly calls it, \u201cmelodic abandon at passion volume.\u201d\u00a0 That said, there\u2019s no escaping at least a mention of the head-banging throb of \u201cBlack Queen,\u201d and the majestic Brian-Wilson-meets-Kurt-Cobain wall of sound that is \u201cThe Enemy\u2019s Scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n
If your tastes run to safe, predictable prefab pop, you should probably steer clear of this album and go catch the Spice Girls reunion tour instead.\u00a0 But if you\u2019d like to hear something that would probably set all of their hair on fire at once, you might be just the kind of listener who\u2019ll fall hard for the May Bees. \u00a0Drop Little Boy<\/i> is 34 minutes of the opposite of boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8100],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40620","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-may-bees","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40620"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40620"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}