Spirit of the Beehive have shared two more songs from their upcoming album, You’ll Have to Lose Something: “Something’s Ending” and “I’ve Been Evil.” The two tracks arrive with a joint music video, in which a series of unsettling, black-and-white clips give way to a story of murder, escape, and rural life in full color. Watch the Kelsea Dakota Larson–directed visual below.
The director said in a press release, “My collaborator and spouse, Jim, and I have been waiting for the right project to film here in rural Appalachia since we moved a few years ago, when we heard these new tracks, we knew this was the right one. We took the titles literally, and wanted to highlight the darkness that can be right under your nose in a beautiful little mountain town, or anywhere really, while outsiders carry on.”
You’ll Have to Lose Something is Spirit of the Beehive’s fifth studio full-length, following 2021’s Entertainment, Death. It comes out August 23 via Saddle Creek. The 12-song LP includes the recent single “Let the Virgin Drive,” as well as a collaboration with Hattiesburg synth-punk band MSPaint.
After releasing the new album, Spirit of the Beehive will hit the road for a headlining tour this autumn, beginning on September 24 in Boston. That route brings them across the United States and Canada, and is scheduled to wrap up on November 9 in their hometown of Philadelphia.
Revisit Pitchfork’s profile “The Spirit of the Beehive Sound Like the Best Hallucination You’ve Ever Had” and read about Entertainment, Death at No. 28 on the list of “The 50 Best Albums of 2021.”
