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BEE BEE SEA: Italian Psych-Punks Launch U.S. Tour
As posted in Flood Magazine
Bee Bee Sea have come to establish their highly unique brand of playful garage rock following the release of their US-label debut Sonic Boomerang back in November, as well as a decisive European victory on tour opening for (Thee?) Oh Sees and (The?) Black Lips. With the announcement of their American tour dates, including a stint at Pickathon next month, the 'beeb' are a group that delivers an authentic rock sound that's unapologetically raw and refreshingly sincere.
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"Bee Bee Sea makes a kind of revved-up garage-punk leaked from the mutant brains of Thee Oh Sees and Black Lips — bands with which the Northern Italian trio has toured — with a little bit of The Cramps' psycho-surf and Can's hypno-funk. For the next five minutes, don't take your hands off the wheel — you might fall into a pit of stabbing guitars or heavy tides of rolling bass" - NPR Music
A SNOTTY, BRATTISH SALUTE TO EVERYTHING THAT MAKES MUSIC FUN IN THE FIRST PLACE."-- CLASH MUSIC
Bee Bee Sea could very well be Italy’s answer to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard " - The Revue
"D.I. Why Why Why" illustrates everything that makes Bee Bee Sea's songs so intoxicating, opening with a catchy surf-rock riff and some driving percussion before the band's fuzzy, layered vocals come in" - Pure Grain Audio
" Explosive Sonic Boomerang as a whole is one head-spinning record from start to finish, overflowing with energy. It's an album that showcases the biggest and the best that Italy's punk scene has to offer" - Pop Dust
"Bee Bee Sea hook your ears in right from the off with Sonic Boomerang, drenched in reverb-soaked chugging guitars, simmering under spiking jabs of almost new-wave rhythms. The beat behind it and the repeating vocals over the top relentlessly drive the song, and the album as a whole, forward" - Louder Than War
Lucky for us we have the all-too-infrequent exportation of bands like Bee Bee Sea—an idiosyncratic trio of psych-indebted rockers hailing from an obscure Lombardian comune—to keep us enlightened to the underrepresented vera Italia, which seems pretty similar to our own tradition of small-town ennui: “When there’s no good shit around, you better form a band!” is the motto the Castel Goffredo three-piece has come to define themselves by. - Flood Magazine
Hailing from Castel Goffredo, a small industrial town in North-East Italy, the psych-garage rock trio Bee Bee Sea can be easily called the Italian Oh Sees. - The 405
7/16 - Asbury Park, NJ - THE SAINT ( with Jane Church)
7/17 - Burlington, VT - The Monkey House
7/20 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (with Jane Church)
7/21 - Philadelphia, PA - The Sound Hole (with Jane Church)
7/22 - Richmond, VA - Capital Ale House Richmond
7/23 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL
7/24 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
7/26 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
7/27 - Costa Mesa, CA - The Wayfarer
7/28 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon Café Concert
7/31 - San Francisco, CA - Elbo Room ( with DJ Sid Presley)
8/02 - Seattle, WA - Funhouse Seattle
8/03, 04, 05 - Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon
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