Milwaukee based Collections of Colonies of Bees will release their new album, Birds, on January 22, 2008 on Table of the Elements. The disc is only four tracks long, lasting 37 minutes. I would listen for twice that time, but I’ll take quality over quantity any day. The band blends traditional folk sounds with electronic elements. Their songs remind us that there is something underneath the layers of pop, production, lyrics, and sentimentalism that constitute most music. They don’t need vocals or traditional song structures to make interesting, engaging and energetic music.

They join Bon Iver and Conrad Plymouth at Mad Planet in Milwaukee on Saturday, January 19th and are playing the Starlight Cinema in Madison during a screening of Ira Cohen’s 1968 film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda on Thursday, February 7th.

‘Post-rock’ fans rejoice!

(see also, Explosions in the Sky, The American Dollar, This Will Destroy You, 65daysofstatic…)

Myspace: Collections of Colonies of Bees
MP3: Collections of Colonies of Bees – Flocks III

(travis)