Music Review: Dirty on Purpose - Like Bees EP - Page 2

The album ends with the e-bow effects of "Send Me an Angel," bringing us back to the subject matter of "Like Bees." It's as if everything on this album is happening in the clouds: angels, swarms of bees, even the cover art of fish looking up, as if attentive to what is happening above them. By now, the guitar work is a given, but it's still as powerful as it was at the beginning of "Audience," and Martin's drums out the disco/dance beats that seem so popular in modern indie music, revealing another layer of indie rock influence this band displays.

The last track brings us back down from the heights of "Send Me an Angel" with "Airshow Disaster." Appropriately named, the song is more reverent and brings the listener back down to earth, but is still full of atmospheric reverb and delay. "Airshow Disaster" is all instrumental, a nice end to an album that blends vocals and guitars so well (it's also the perfect track for an EP like this).

Dirty on Purpose are a fairly new band, but they are getting some serious praise from the indie rock community since they released 2005's Hallelujah Sirens. Like Bees is the band's second EP, and it signals that there is more to come from this band as they evolve and gain more listeners.

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