Otala instantly bang on your ear drums with this new track Tell The Bees. First listen and you’re immediately submerged within the sound of this song, no build up, no warning, and you’re hit with an audible ambush.An eruption of emotion and colourful experiences, an exploration of grief and coming to terms with the inevitable.

Telling the bees is a Celtic custom about informing the yellow helpers of a birth, of a death, when someone comes, when they go. This is done so that the bees stay, tell them your secrets or they’ll fly away. This tale is liquefied to music in Otala’s latest punk anthem, with it’s omniscient narrator seemingly aware of his impending fate.

The track is filled with rage, honouring the inescapable demise of our desperate storyteller. The devoid life we live after loss is explored in poem. There is lightning in these lyrics that crash through the thunderous storm of shredding guitar riffs and drum stabs, the atmosphere reaches a dramatic crescendo in the final words of the narrator. When uttered are met with a raucous bossa nova style sax, an explosion of sound- chaos ensues as the narrator rests. Is this ending an act of rebellion or a celebration at his passing?

In actuality it does not matter if we tell the bees, the inevitable will continue to occur, not as some synthetic concept looming in the future, it lurks on every clock turn and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. The inevitable can strike a smiling face as well as one soaked in tears. Thus it is best to rebel, to dance to live as well as you can whilst the inevitable watches.Look into its eyes and dance anyway.

Otala have already established themselves as punk pioneers after supporting the likes of, Enola Gay, Ritual Hills and Bloodworm, they have also played with the likes of Yabba who you can read about here.The quartet is made up of Oscar, providing the eery voice for the narrator and the surreal guitar riffs, Rory providing the boom on bass, Jack disorienting a listener with this melancholic tale on synths and Fin keeping everything in check on drums.

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