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Hailing from England's Isle of Wight--famous for hosting Jimi Hendrix's last major live appearance in 1970 at its annual hippie festival and, well, abundant sheep farms--its no wonder A Band of Bees' second album sounds like it was rescued from a time capsule. The production has such a vintage feel you can practically taste the dust on the deeply psychedelic grooves of "Wash In The Rain" and the Farfissa-fueled instrumental "The Russian." Meanwhile, on a track like "Chicken Payback," the duo-turned-sextet's appetite for experimentation runs so wild that the collision of music hall horns, old school soul rhythms and zoo animal lyrics results in what probably has to be the most buzz-inducing thing this side of a Nuggets box. --Aidin Vaziri