Mouthful Of Bees

So, there we were at The Electric Fetus, browsing through the new releases section when we were struck by a light blue CD with a handwritten label above it that said, “If you like Tapes ‘N Tapes, you’ll like Mouthful Of Bees.” Having just ended an overdose month of listening to nothing but Tapes ‘N Tapes, we decided to give it a try, sound unheard.

Imagine my giddiness as I listened to Mouthful Of Bees (my apologies for the myspace link — that’s all they seem to have *sigh*) and heard influences from many of my favorite bands. There was a little Ween, a little Archers Of Loaf, a whole lot of Superchunk, and even a Spoon-ish riff here and there. Finding out that they were a local band (like TnT) only made the find sweeter.

I’m now officially in the middle of an overdose month of MoB and I’m enjoying every minute of it.

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Under The Glacier by Mouthful Of Bees from The End

I had a heck of a time picking only one track for my self-imposed rule of “TrackODay” (as opposed to, perhaps, “AlbumODay”). There are no tracks on the album that sound like filler, and better yet, they don’t sound all the same. So, don’t take my choice as a “quintessential” Mouthful Of Bees song because I have no idea what that might sound like. Listen to the album yourself and see if you can spot other influences that I’ve missed and post them as a comment below. I’d be more than interested in checking out any band that sounds like they influenced MoB.