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She Keeps Bees fra Brooklyn, New York er en duo som spiller rå blues rock

De består av Jessica Larrabee på vokal og gitar, og Andy LaPlant på trommer. De har blitt sammenlignet med Patti Smith, White Stripes, The Kills, PJ Harvey, og Cat Power.

Larrabee was recording an album as a solo artist under the name She Keeps Bees (“bees” coming from her surname) and met LaPlant when she was his bartender. He helped produce her music and began attending her shows, until she suggested he play with her. They formed their band in 2006. They record their music in their home in Brooklyn. Larrabee has also been a guest vocalist on Groove Armada’s album Black Light. They have supported The Joy Formidable, and played at SXSW in 2010. They signed to Domino Publishing in July 2010. Their third album “Dig On”, recorded during November 2010 in a log home in the Catskill Mountains, is released in Spring 2011.

Jessica Larrabee is a singer songwriter and guitarist who has been in other bands. She taught her partner Andy LaPlant to play drums; he is a recording engineer and producer. Larrabee says of their playing that “I sing until my stomach hurts while Andy beats the shit out the drums” and has acknowledged comparisons to Cat Power.

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The Guardian said that “they’re like the White Stripes in reverse.”

Drowned in Sound said of Larrabee that “She has amazing control over her vocals, able to simultaneously be fiery and reserved, seductive and vaguely crude”,and fellow Brooklyn musician Sharon Van Etten said “she has one of the best voices I have ever heard and she has more soul in one finger than most female singers have in our scene.”

The New York Times’s ArtsBeat compared her to PJ Harvey, but added that “Far from Ms. Harvey’s theatrical poise, Ms. Larrabee is loose, vehement and unchoreographed, jittering around the stage.”

The Quietus said of “Nests” that “The album does its duty, forms a songbook for the pissed off, the heavy-lidded and the sultry.”

The Observer said it was “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.”

Contact Music argued that “In some parts the album isn’t an easy listen but once you’re in to it, it’s very rewarding.

One of Rough Trade Shop’s Albums of the Year, 2011
“An album of fire, spirit and sweat –and sometimes that’s all you need.”
-BBC

“…it’s the sparseness of the arrangements and the warmth of Larrabee’s voice which will initially snare you, but these are songs that are primed to get under your skin.”
-The Irish Times

“It’s clear that the band is giving it their all on each and every cut of Dig On. The violent guitar strumming of ‘Found You Out’ accentuates the rises and plummeting dips in Larrabee’s singing, and the rhythmic, forceful drumming on “See Me” pounds home the feeling of anguish, as she hollers a lyrical reminder of ‘I’m still your daughter’ to an errant parent.”
-Consequence of Sound

“She Keeps Bees works a bluesy, primal territory in the footsteps of P.J. Harvey.”
-The New York Times

“A soulful duo that fluently burns through rough-hewn and potent blues-rock stompers.”
-The New Yorker