Frog Eyes Announce New LP, Share "When You Turn On The Light" Single + Lyric Video via Pitchfork The Bees LP Due April 29 via Paper Bag Records

Photo Credit to Soloman Chiniquay PRE-SAVE: Frog Eyes - The Bees Pre-Save LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Frog Eyes - "When You Turn On The Light" Stream / YouTube "Mercer’s singular voice, nightmare-bent and horror-pained, has put him in league with such eccentric vocalists as Tom Waits and Frank Black, and he shares with them the status of the truly inimitable. That his voice survived throat cancer undiminished is all the more extraordinary. It’s what gives Violet Psalms its otherworldly power—especially on its two final songs, 'Unconscious Missive' and 'Pay for Fire,' heartening demonstrations of Mercer’s expressiveness and range." - Pitchfork "The claustrophobia of all the best Frog Eyes tunes — like you’re in a tiny elevator with Carey and his guitar, and he’s playing and singing right next to you, right in your ear, and you can smell the beer on his breath and he’s staring right at you with those wild eyes, and all you can do is stare straight ahead as the illuminated floor numbers slowly decrease, and maybe you press the 'Lobby' button a few times in a desperate attempt to make the elevator descend faster, and you definitely pray that this will end soon (but shoot, you still kind of like it, and golly, it’s not that long a song anyway, maybe you can relax, just a little) — weighs heavily, a cloud of anxiety presaging a panic attack." - Tiny Mixtapes  "The Canadian band’s eighth LP burns with an apocalyptic intensity that feels final and definitive, like some dire prophecy has come to pass [...] These 10 songs are a study in musical dynamics, with ever-shifting instrumentation that leaves moments of brooding calm, and even silence, that are torn by spikes of guitar or swollen with eerie synthesizers, and then punctuated by Carey Mercer’s voice." - Paste "Violet Psalms finds Frog Eyes going out in a burst of vitality. It's a mesmerizing album, full of world-weary terror and transcendent grace." - Exclaim! "Beautifully complicated, creative and strange [...] Not only does Mercer spin you around with his unique vocals, but he completely turns you inside out with his absurdist poetry." - Slug Magazine Today, Vancouver indie-rock greats Frog Eyes announce their surprise return with the arrival of their first new single in four years entitled "When You Turn On The Light," the debut track off their forthcoming comeback album, The Bees (due April 29 via Paper Bag Records). Pitchfork hosted the track's premiere. Speaking on the album's first single, the band wrote: "I never made music when I was 21. I wanted to be a painter. I lived in an apartment with friends in Vancouver, and my room was full of cans of toxic enamel-marine paint. I would wake up at 3:30pm and paint on my bedroom wall, this crazed fresco, a hellish umber landscape that glittered street light reflections from the enamel paint. I had to sleep by my open window because the fumes were atrocious, and I started to deteriorate, but the fresco was really coming along. Some of the roommates were amazing musicians, some of them passed away. I think the song ‘When You Turn on the Light’ describes walking into my bedroom in that apartment. One time, I came home from a late afternoon walk and the building manager was standing in my bedroom looking at the painting with a look of wonder but also fear, and the fear turned to anger when I walked in. She kept her food in our fridge because her roommate kept stealing her cream cheese, and we used to dread the sound of her key turning in our lock. But it meant we could eat her cream cheese. When she confronted me about the fresco, I told her I was enriching the apartment and lied about my standing in the world, describing upcoming shows in Milan and Turin. And Toronto, for believability. She left and we were evicted a bit later but I think it had more to do with other things and not just the fresco." The Bees arrives after the band's stint under the name Soft Plastics, following Frog Eyes' "final" album, Violet Psalms, released in 2018. Frog Eyes - "When You Turn On The Light"   FROG EYES LINKS Bandcamp | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify