Review b y Joseph Timmons, IndiePulse Journalist.
As described with all honesty, “Hallucinate is a collection of contemporary tales about aliens, gasoline, French bread, guitars, gambling, and asteroids, and features the angular guitar pyrotechnics of the British bandleader Conrad Warre, the harmonica laments of keyboard player Carol Band and a slew of Boston-based friends and musicians who were coerced into adding their voice and their instruments to the tracks on the album.”, and I could not agree more.
Bees Deluxe, a British-American acid blues band, bend the genre by infusing elements of jazz, funk, psychedelia and rock. The result is a sound that’s clearly distinctive, highly musical, and infused with a bit of insanity. On Hallucinate, Bees Deluxe continue to push the limits of the blues and color outside the lines of convention.
Musicians who contributed to this album are Carol Band on keyboards, vocals and harmonica, Poogie Bell on drums (Nitro), Allyn Dorr on bass and vocals, Jared Egan on guitar (Sharkskin Suit), Joe Egan on keyboards and mentoring, James Gildea on bass and vocals, Paul Giovine on drums and percussion, Adam Sankowski on bass guitar and Conrad Warre, performing on guitar, bass, vocals, trumpet, and keys.
Listening to the album Hallucinate, I found similar tones and harmonies to artists like Roger Waters, Don Henley and groups like King Crimson and Steely Dan. Mesmerizing guitar work, precise percussions and vocals that are emotionally touching.
Often reviewers will tear apart an album track by track, I too have been guilty of this, but with Hallucinate, that is something that cannot be done, I feel the songs intertwine and blend together so well that if you took all the songs and mixed them up in order, you would get the same flowing and swelling excitement, the same high points and emotional waterfalls as the album is now.
Hallucinate, is one of those albums that come along very infrequently, a complete outline of musical genius, songs that have substance not only individually, but as an entire album, like one lone and complete song, no matter where you are in the album, it evolves and transforms into something grand and magical.
Hallucinate is available for streaming and downloading at Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, ITunes, Deezer, Bandcamp and iTunes nearly everywhere. Bees Deluxe music can be purchased from the band’s website:
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