Bee Bee Sea has today released their new single titled ‘You’ from their upcoming album ‘Stanzini Can Be Allright’, dropping November 21st via Wild Honey Records.
Hate as an homage as reality inevitably sets in. We’ve all been there, but rarely is there an anthem for that tiny sliver of time that most of us experience but rarely talk about. That part where we wish the other harm and death and refuse to acknowledge those feelings because they’re not what we want to admit to stooping to.
Short, not-so-sweet, and all-to-the-point, ‘You’ cuts to the chase and pulls absolutely no punches showing us that we’re not the only one and feelings are normal and part of the process. The song, however, feels more appropriate being names ‘**** You’.
About Bee Bee Sea & ‘Stanzini Can Be Allright’
‘You’ is the new single taken from the upcoming new album. Love songs can be beautiful — but thankfully, there are hate songs too. “You” is one of them. It’s about that moment when affection fades, when someone you once loved starts to drive you crazy. There’s no big reason why — maybe you’ve just spent too much time together, and all the little quirks that used to seem harmless begin to wear you down. You realize your values aren’t quite aligned anymore. Yet, the good memories remain, and deep down, there’s still a trace of affection — as long as they don’t come too close.
The band recalls” “‘You’ was born almost by accident, during a rehearsal session. After writing one too many four-minute songs with intricate structures, we challenged ourselves to do the opposite: something short, fast, and straight to the point. So we set a timer for 1 minute and 37 seconds and decided to play without saying a word, except for the key. The rule was simple: we had to come up with a song before the alarm went off. Said and done — by the end of the rehearsal, we had ‘You’.”
‘Stanzini Can Be Allright’ is a tribute to the nearly eponymous song by The Gizmos, ‘Midwest Can Be Allright’. Can growing up in the plains of Northern Italy resemble, in some way, the Midwest experience? Maybe, maybe not; it’s hard to say. But Bee Bee Sea saw something in this parallel. And it’s from this conviction that everything was born. The idea of coming from an isolated place, with cold, foggy winters and blazing summers, far from major cultural and economic hubs, doesn’t sound all that appealing. Yet The Gizmos managed to capture this desolation with a sense of irony and genuine attachment to their roots. The band explains: “In our own way, maybe unconsciously at first, we let ourselves be inspired by this, too. And Stanzini is just that: a parallel universe, a creative force born to fill in what might be missing for a few kids from a provincial town. From a garage turned into a rehearsal space, Stanzini took shape—a musical collective that creates and develops projects far from the hype of the big cities”.
The album contains 12 tracks that tell stories of these people and places. If The Gizmos inspired us in spirit, ‘Stanzini Can Be Allright’ goes much further musically. It’s still garage rock, but it expands broadly, embracing diverse influences with a distinctly personal style and plenty of nuances. You’ll hear some egg punk, but also Guided By Voices; hints of Sweeping Promises as well as The Cleaners from Venus. There are loads of melodies and plenty of riffs. It’s a diary of life experiences in a place that may not be extraordinary, but all in all, “can be allright” when you set out to change it. And music can change a lot of things.
Hailing from Castel Goffredo, s small town in Northern Italy, Bee Bee Sea play garage/punk/psych with a power-pop heart — or simply “ROK,” as they like to call it, whatever that may truly mean. The band formed in the early 2010s among the foggy plains of Lombardy, in makeshift rehearsal rooms between Mantua and Brescia. They started off playing 60s classics — Beatles, Stones, The Who — before quickly moving to write their own songs: fast, rough, and irresistibly catchy, somewhere between The Black Lips and The Replacements.
Over the years, Bee Bee Sea have played hundreds of shows all across Italy, then throughout Europe and twice in the United States — including a stop at Pickathon Festival. Their first two albums earned them tours with heroes and contemporaries such as Thee Oh Sees, The Black Lips, King Khan, IDLES, Night Beats, and Broken Social Scene, bringing their chaotic rock’n’roll from tiny basement clubs to major festival stages and even TV soundtracks (Shameless, Ginny & Georgia) and their songs have gained airplay on BBC Radio 1, Radio X, KEXP, WFMU, and were even championed multiple times by Iggy Pop on his BBC 6 Music show.
SOURCE: Official Bio
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