She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat." 

Their new album "Eight Houses" (Sept.2014) finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz. 

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

Eight Houses at iTunes

other releases by She Keeps Bees:
Nests (Vinyl) 2008/2016
Our Bodies/Head Of Steak (7” Vinyl) 2017
Kinship (Vinyl / CD / Cassette) 2019

A1 /01. Feather Lighter - (2:45)
A2/02. Breezy - (3:12)
A3/03. Owl - (3:34)
A4/04. Both Sides - (3:20)
A5/05. Burning Bowl - (1:46)
B1 /06. Radiance - (3:56)
B2/07. Wasichu - (3:07)
B3/08. Greasy Grass - (3:28)
B4/09. Raven - (4:10)
B5/10. Is What It Is - (3:24)

All songs by Jessica Larrrabee (ASCAP)
Administered by Domino Publishing

Recorded & mixed by Nicolas Vernhes & Gabe Wax at Rare  Book Room
Produced by Nicolas Vernhes and She Keeps Bees
Performed by Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant
Additional performances by Adam Schatz, Molly Donahue, Nicolas Vernhes, Gabe Wax, Sharn Van Etten
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Artwork by Romain Barbot

c+p 2014 BB*ISLAND under exclusive license from She Keeps Bees