:: Drawn From Bees - The Sky Is Falling

Drawn From Bees

The Sky Is Falling by Drawn From Bees starts with a whimsical guitar solo before building into a melodic rock crescendo that has you positively aching for more. The next instalment from these east coast art-rock aficionados, The Sky is Falling is a breathtaking listen, especially if you consider how long Drawn From Bees took to write, record and release the six-song EP- six months! That’s right, in just six months these extremely skilled musicians have put together an EP that is more cohesive and collected than many highly produced and hard-laboured albums. But then again, Drawn From Bees are used to churning out great music against a tight schedule. The Sky is Falling is the third chapter of a project that began in August 2008 with The Boy in the Ocean and has seen them release a new studio offering every six months since. The Sky is Falling is much mellower affair than the band’s two previous EPs. This time around, the boys have stepped away from the shattering rock anthems and fast-paced beats and embraced melancholic harmonies that ebb back and forth through a dreamy and slow melody like waves out at sea. In title track, ‘The Sky is Falling’ the resemblance to Keane is uncanny. The soft vocals from Dan James teamed with the aching guitar and keyboard notes have everything that made Keane such a standout success a few years back. From then on the EP reads like a story book of loss played out in deep and haunting melodies. In ‘Bus Now’ the heartache becomes too much to bear. Dark and angry harmonies take centre stage through a bracing drum beat, while in ‘Death of A General’ the mood turns from desolate despair to a reminiscent optimism punched by forceful horns and a silky acoustic guitar melody. Drawn From Bees have really out down themselves with The Sky Is Falling. A moving and thoroughly entrancing EP, it draws every emotion out of you until reach a state of pure and utter bliss.