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Bee Bee Sea: Italian Psychedelic Punks Flick 'Sonic Boomerang' | Dirty Water Records USA/Wild Honey Records
Sonic Boomerang: Is that, like, Sonic the Hedgehog's new weapon? A new shake from that burger drive-in? Psychedelic punk-rock whipped into the abyss and returned with aerodynamic force?
On the title track from Bee Bee Sea's new album, you get 10 seconds before the drums kick into a motorik rhythm — a psychedelic speedway rammed through by the frenetic spit of punk. 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.
"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
"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
Bee Bee Sea - Sonic Boomerang Tour Dates
7 Nov - Perugia, Urban Club
18 Nov - Rosà (VI), Vinile Club
1 Dec - Milano, Circolo Magnolia
15 Dec - Brescia, Lio Bar (Release Party)
16 Dec - Teramo, Fazenda
22 Dec - Parma, WOPA
23 Dec - Ravenna, Bronson
13 Jan - Mezzago (MB), Bloom
2 Feb - Piacenza, Musici Per Caso
3 Feb - Schio (VI), CSA Arcadia
17 Feb - Padova, Fishmarket
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Past performers have included The White Stripes (voted by Q Magazine as one of the top 10 gigs of all time, Mojo one of the top 30 and Kerrang one of the top 100!), The Gories, Country Teasers, Black Lips, NOBUNNY, Kid Congo Powers, The Fleshtones, Billy Childish, Radio Birdman, The Dirtbombs, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The 5.6.7.8's, The Horrors and The Brian Jonestown Massacre to name just a few. The club has also seen some original '60s performers, such as The Monks, ? and the Mysterians, Kim Fowley, Sky Saxon, GONN, Michael Davis of the MC5 and more grace its stage.
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