It's too late for you, and it's too late for me
Are you still in your post-Thanksgiving haze? Have you been napping on the couch for the past 18 hours, half-listening to John Madden's jowly bark? Well snap out of it! I present to you: Mouthful of Bees.
I think all us Robots have posted at one time or another about the thrill of hearing something great when it's least expected. We'll receive something in the mail that we've never heard of, and take a few minutes from our day to pop it in the player. Sometimes what comes out of the speakers is something thrilling and exciting.
That's what happened to me with Mouthful Of Bees. "The Now" is from their record The End, which is overall just a great piece of music. Their next one will be released on Afternoon Records. Afternoon is also the home to One For The Team, a great band I posted a while back, and One For The Team's frontman Ian Anderson is also Afternoon Records' frontman. (And not to embarrass the guy or anything, but click here to listen to a Minnesota Public Radio story about how Anderson somehow juggles college with helming a respected Minneapolis indie label and fronting an awesome rock band.)
Anyway, I don't know much about Mouthful Of Bees. I know they self-released The End a few months ago, and now they have distribution with Afternoon, so it's pretty great that the record will get some more attention now. I love this song, how it starts out with that riff and then dissolves into organized chaos. Gets me every time. And do yourself a favor, listen to their other tunes on MySpace, especially "Talking," which has another great guitar part to dance around to.
To get the record, I'd suggest contacting the band via MySpace.