Bees In The Bonnet (2025)

""Bees In The Bonnet" marks the first outing by the original Hedvig Mollestad Trio since 2021's "Ding Dong. You're Dead". "Bees In The Bonnet" is a return to basics for the trio. That said, they take those basics to extremes. Check opener "See See Bop." Its opening vamp insistently reflects the influence of Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore; the vamp bears undisguised ghost traces of "My Woman From Tokyo." That riff persists and is played in rounds where first guitar, then bass, then drums, alternate in the foreground as it chugs until the halfway mark, when the beat syncopates for a bit before the crunch resumes in a higher key. By contrast, "Golden Griffin" nods at the influence of Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer in angular prog. Scalar runs drift into expansive harmonic terrain as the rhythm section pushes an ever-evolving vamp that ever so slightly shifts in time and texture throughout." (AllMusic; 4 uit 5 sterren)