COMING SOON!
Waiting for a Sign — the third Swarme of Beese studio album — will be available late 2024 on CD and as a digital download at swarmeofbeese.bandcamp.com/.
The album’s nine evocative songs travel through time, visiting places ranging from a WWI battlefield on Christmas Eve to the cemetery of an abandoned lunatic asylum. Whether imagining a young man’s daydreams in the depths of a Minnesota winter, recalling a romantic awakening on a sultry Texas evening, or retelling a 19th-century North Carolina murder ballad — and finally culminating in an urgent, apocalyptic lament on the climate/environmental crisis, the poetic songwriting is always imbued with a strong spirit of place and an American Gothic undercurrent.
Working again with longtime Austin producer & multi-instrumentalist Mark Addison, songwriting duo Lynne Adele & Stephen Canner share vocals & guitar duties. Atmospheric arrangements feature Stefan Keydel on violin & viola and create the band’s signature minor-keyed, mutant folk sound.
The album’s nine evocative songs travel through time, visiting places ranging from a WWI battlefield on Christmas Eve to the cemetery of an abandoned lunatic asylum. Whether imagining a young man’s daydreams in the depths of a Minnesota winter, recalling a romantic awakening on a sultry Texas evening, or retelling a 19th-century North Carolina murder ballad — and finally culminating in an urgent, apocalyptic lament on the climate/environmental crisis, the poetic songwriting is always imbued with a strong spirit of place and an American Gothic undercurrent.
Working again with longtime Austin producer & multi-instrumentalist Mark Addison, songwriting duo Lynne Adele & Stephen Canner share vocals & guitar duties. Atmospheric arrangements feature Stefan Keydel on violin & viola and create the band’s signature minor-keyed, mutant folk sound.
