BMX Bandits - Bee Stings

BEE STINGS is the 15th album by Scottish indie-pop godfathers BMX Bandits. Usually 15 albums into a career you aren't expecting to hear something new or different but BMX Bandits have never allowed themselves to be limited by others, often mis-guided, preconceptions. From their naive debut E102, described by Sounds as "the worst single ever made" to their genre busting slice of pop sophistication Serious Drugs and to the heartbreaking true life confessional of their previous album My Chain (2006) "a dream marriage of Brian Wilson and Michel Legrand's Umbrellas of Cherbourg" they've charmed and surprised those willing to open their ears and their minds. BEE STINGS is the first BMX album proper to showcase the voice of new lady Bandit Rachel Mackenzie. Lead Bandito Duglas T Stewart has found a voice to express his inner girl through Rachel and Bee Stings is an album with two narratives running through it, male and female, but occasionally the stories cross over and blur into each other. Bee Stings features a sensual and tender gender swap reading of Will Oldham's After I Made Love To You and a new compostion by ex-Bandit Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and new Bandit Rachel, Our Secret Life. BMX Bandits have recently played sell out shows in Barcelona, New York and Tokyo and continue to delight and confuse long term fans while finding new believers looking for something real, something from the heart.
UK PR : Triad… Expect Uncut, Q, Mojo, Plan B, Record Collector & broadsheet coverage ...
"some of the most sumptuous, emotionally devastating pop songs never to grace the top 40" -The Daily Telegraph.
"if I could be in any other group it would be the BMX Bandits" Kurt Cobain 1993

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