Frog Eyes Shares "Rainbow Stew" Single + Lyric Video via FLOOD | 'The Bees' LP Due April 29 via Paper Bag Records

Frog Eyes Shares "Rainbow Stew" Single + Lyric Video via FLOOD Magazine New Track Out Now via All DSPS The Bees LP Due April 29 via Paper Bag Records

Photo Credit to Soloman Chiniquay PRE-SAVE: Frog Eyes - The Bees Pre-Save / Bandcamp LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Frog Eyes - "Rainbow Stew" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Frog Eyes - "I Was An Oligarch" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Frog Eyes - "When You Turn On The Light" Stream / YouTube "Leans into Mercer’s penchant for surreal lyrical imagery and his backing band’s talent for crafting driving jangle pop." - FLOOD "Beautiful, noisy and singularly Frog Eyes" - Brooklyn Vegan "The song is a subtle yet dazzling bit of sonic art. Constructed on minimal sounds, a plucky bass and simple drums while ambient tones, sideways guitar shapes cascading down while Carey Mercer chews the vocal scenery and spits it out. As singer-songwriter, guitarist he paints an almost slow motion darkly drawn picture informed by the messy, painful stuff of life and quite possibly paint fumes." - American Pancake "Like a crude, sobering elixir force-fed down your gullet, you are reminded of the impetuous cataclysms of life – death, illness and hysteria. It portrays when the allegorical light switches on within your head, and catastrophic losses come to full realization." - Two Story Melody "The Canadian quartet are masters of assembling music that sounds like the intro to an inevitable drama. 'When You Turn on the Light' is no exception." - Alt77 "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." - 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 share "Rainbow Stew," the third track off their forthcoming comeback album (their first album in four years), The Bees (due April 29 via Paper Bag Records). Speaking on the single, Carey Mercer wrote: "'Rainbow Stew' doesn't unpack as cleanly, in terms of a personal narrative, as the two other songs we've released for The Bees, but it is representative of one of the five kinds of songs that I can write — usually this type comes at the end of the writing process, when I have a sense of the shape and weight of the record. These songs come really fast — I think I wrote this song in 5 minutes — and they serve a contrasting purpose. I remember in (the 3 months that I attended) painting school, learning about Cezanne's White Pipe, how it livens the paintings, and also intensifies the gloom in the corners. 'Rainbow Stew' lightens the whole affair, and allows the dense haze of other songs their own beauty. These songs are the ones I personally cherish the most." 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 - "Rainbow Stew"   FROG EYES LINKS Bandcamp | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify