Album Review: Holy Hive Will “Float Back To You”
The minute I found out Holy Hive was was formed by Homer Steinweiss (long-time drummer and founding member of The Dap-Kings), I knew I was about hear some groovy music. Float Back To You, out May 29, does make you feel like you are floating. It is tender and ethereal in its delivery of folk-funk tracks on what it is to be in love.
Tracks like, “Sophia’s Part,” “Broom,” and “Didn’t You Say” have an old school, lyrical look on love like, “Baby, Come Back! Don’t Forget I Love You!” It is always interesting to look at music history and observe how we sang to love from within each era, of which lead singer/ guitarist Paul Spring has a definite 70’s vibe in his every annotation and emotion. He feels like he has gone with Dorothy to the sleepy, poppy fields of OZ, but when he woke up his Dorothy was gone. Thus, he uses his higher register to float his versed memories like a bubble floats Glinda. Okay! Enough Wizard of OZ references, but I love how this album feels like the film; soft, mystical, and hopeful.
Holy Hive – Float Back To You (Official Music Video)
There is a magical yearning to Spring’s voice that makes you want to pop on the headphones, close your eyes, and drift to the times when there were no cell-phones, but long-bottoms, vinyls, and your lusciously, long hair whisking in the wind on your bike-ridden newspaper run were a thing. It is for this reason the album feels like a fluid, time-capsule. Every song flows into the other with a transportive quality; making you miss your 70’s lover, even if you were not born in the era or don’t have an ex. Something about “missing someone’ is always endearing in music, and Float Back To You is sonic nostalgia at its finest.
Holy Hive – Broom (Official Music Video)