One of the rare benefits of listening to singles from Spirit of the Beehive's 2021 project ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH is that they remind you how much of a self-contained body of work the album is. An experimental rock epic with no recent parallel, ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH ranked at No. 31 on our year-end albums list. Today, we get an animated video for the album closer "DEATH."
While one of the album's calmer moments, "DEATH" is far from peaceful, approaching the end of life with an ambivalence lurking below the serene, swirling melodies. The animated video directed by Jeff Watterson and Boy Tillekens picks up on the thread of all-consuming loneliness in its depiction of a family of trolls getting gradually abducted by who-knows-what to who-knows-where. The clip is “about someone who has chosen to follow a false narrative," the directors wrote in a press release, adding that “nothing after the first shot is real.”
Next week, Spirit of the Beehive will embark on an extensive North American tour with Body Meat and Deeper. Find those dates below, and revisit the band's track-by-track run-through of ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH.
Spirit of the Beehive 2022 tour dates
3/1 - Baltimore, MD. Ottobar #
3/2 - Richmond, VA - Richmond Music Hall #
3/3 - Durham, NC - Motorco #
3/4 - Nashville - Exit / In #
3/5 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5 #
3/6 - Orlando, FL - Will’s Pub #
3/7 - Miami, FL - Gramps #
3/8 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar #
3/10 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa #
3/11 - Houston, TX - Secret Group #
3/12 - Austin, TX - Spiderhouse #
3/13 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada #
3/15 - Phoenix - Valley Bar $
3/18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex $
3/19 - Oakland, CA - Starline Social Club $
3/22 - Vancouver, BC - The Fox Cabaret $
3/23 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile $
3/24 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge $
3/25 - Boise, ID - Treefort Festival
3/26 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court $
3/28 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive $
3/30 - Chicago, IL - Schubas $
3/31 - Chicago, IL - Schubas $
4/1 - Madison, WI - University of Wisconsin $
4/2 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme $
4/3 - Detroit, MI - The Sanctuary $
4/4 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison $
4/5 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa $
4/6 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall $
4/8 - Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre $
4/9 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church $
4/10 -Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere $
Body Meat - #
Deeper - $
Thumbnail photo by Peggy Fioretti
