The Bees: Every Step's A Yes – review

(Fiction)After three patchy albums of 60s-indebted whimsy, something seems to have clicked for the Isle of Wight six-piece. Perhaps it's the drugs, with pre-release publicity focusing on singer Paul Butler's journey into the Peruvian jungle to drop fashionable psychedelic ayahuasca with the local shamen. This seems to have worked, with their fourth album a consistently tuneful, vaguely trippy exercise in classic rock that would once have guaranteed sales and residence on radio playlists. Instead...

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