Daily Dose: She Keeps Bees, “Greasy Grass” (Premiere)
Photo by Jonathan Dy
Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Curated by the Paste Music Team.
In case you missed it, She Keeps Bees is angry right now. The lo-fi duo of singer/guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer Andy LaPlant has been working together for more than 10 years now, returning with a fiery force last month in response to the Trump regime. Via European label BB*Island, the band released a limited-edition 7” single of “Our Bodies” and “Head of Steak,”, which decries the attempted repeal of the Affordable Care Act and reneging of America’s involvement in the Paris Accord, respectively. Plus, all profits from the first year of sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood and Earth Justice.
Today, though, Paste premieres a video for “Greasy Grass,” from the band’s last full-length album, Eight Houses. Although written and recorded in 2014, the song’s meaning and visual accompaniment seems more relevant than ever. Director Mallory Amirault, with help from students at the Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver, depicts humanity’s dependence on, and capitalistic entanglement with oil through a dark series of artistic shots. As Larrabee and LaPlant smother themselves in a tar-like substance, it fills viewers with a sense of griminess as visceral as the song’s distorted timbre (before making you want take a bath like the ducky like in those cute/sad Dawn soap commercials).
As Amirault writes:
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