- I read somewhere said that
spirit of the beehive is so up obtuse,
it's music for people who like the idea of listening to
music, but have never actually listened to music.
(cheerful music)
It's pretty to be happy.
(cheerful music)
- It's its all up to interpretation,
um I think it's just vague enough that they can
induce anxiety or whatever the feeling of the actual song
is without um making someone think this
oh, this happened to someone else, this can happen to me.
That's the basic idea, I would hope,
especially for anxiety,
love to give people anxiety, because i
don't want to be the only one that has it.
So it's better if you
- You wanna to share it
- have it too
- I don't have like a story
typically that I'm ever trying to tell with lyrics,
Everything is all stream of consciousness,
which I think is like pretty, I don't know,
a pretty normal thing to do
whatever narrative is there. is kind of revealed to me after
I did make up an answer for an interview
once where I said that it was kind of a
story of me driving to a club with
a gas leak in my car, I don't know, that seems like a
I seems like a dream of ED
(laughs)
- That one started with the sample
for the song was even written.
I just do like random YouTube,
deep dives all the time and just find stuff that has at
least less than like 3000 plays. I try to make it work,
but I was like that.
I'm gonna, that'll be the first thing that you hear
and then wrote some around that.
(high intensity techno music)
- Music in Florida was good,
but sparse
um, weren't very many house shows,
which once you moved to Philly, how shows everywhere.
So that was a nice change of pace.
Really heavy sludgy kind of murky music comes from
at least my area.
Everything was a lot brighter here. Seemed like.
- I just came from going to the punk,
like punk shows in my hometown.
Um, Zach's from Miami and I'm from central Florida.
So we only had house shows and it was just kind of all like
nasty little punk shows and that,
yeah, I didn't make these,
like I didn't start playing bass until I started in this
band.
- This probably the most straightforward song
on the record.
Um,
Poppy, you try to go with an old
Beatles vibey with the drums and the bass kind of panned
far in certain parts and stuff.
Mostly wrote that song about a bad acid trip.
I had once everything everything's just going wrong.
And I remember I'd put my hand into my pocket and I felt my
hand go all the way down to my toes. And I was like,
that's not how this has been I'm officially having
a bad time.
(Intense techno music)
(intense techno music)
- I second, that was the, was originally, it
it was four different songs that were much longer in their
own portions.
We kind of narrowed down, pick the best parts
of these different songs, changed them a bit to make it
like our, if we wanted to make like a day in the life
kind of track
Um, again, lyrically, we didn't,
everyone kind of wrote their part and then looked at the
whole picture and was like,
Well, don't even have to really discuss this.
This kind of works.
- To go off like the lyrical stuff. I feel like, yeah,
we definitely didn't discuss any sort of narrative for the
song.
Um, we all wrote lyrics for like each of the parts or,
I mean, for individual parts, we kind of each have our like
on sections.
And I feel like it ended up with like a loose narrative,
even if we didn't intend it,
which can mean a few different things to different people.
Hopefully.
- I feel like that happens a lot where we'll just write our
own separate parts and then somehow it'll become
some kind of form of a narrative.
- But this is typically a band where even like during the
mixing process, you're still kind of writing songs.
So, never really know it sounds like
until it's 100% done and that can take weeks
and months
and years,
the production was intense.
Um, It's a long song. Obviously every part is mixed
differently.
My computer at the time wasn't even good enough to hold the
entire song in the same file.
So everything had to be mixed downs to put back in. It was.
- Yeah
- It was rough.
- In the same way that it was written as multiple songs.
It was basically recorded as like separate parts.
Like we couldn't do.
We had to just make the individual blocks and then
kind of transition them together,
slam it all together.
( techno music )
(intense techno music)
- Uh, I don't want people to be confused when they
listen to it, but uh I would uh
happy to be a record band.
Band you have to listen to the whole record
not a singles band.
I don't think we have very many hits, you know,
so if you could listen to the whole record,
then I appreciate you.
It's difficult to listen to the whole of anything possibly.