Beta Radio is an American band from Wilmington, North Carolina. The group c… Read Full Bio ↴Beta Radio is an American band from Wilmington, North Carolina. The group consists of Benjamin Mabry and Brent Holloman. Stylistically, their music features an amalgam of folk, indie, chamber pop, rock and Americana influences.
Musically reminiscent at times of Bon Iver’s atmosphere heavy For Emma, Forever Ago or the Grateful Dead’s “Mountains of the Moon” from their 1969 release Aoxomoxoa, the sonic landscape of the band's album Seven Sisters is sparse but far from empty. On tracks like “Khima,” “Borderline” and “Brother, Sister,” the slow scrawl of the banjo melody floats through the song and surrounds you like birdsong, coming at you predictably but surprisingly from several directions at once. Each of the songs on this album stays with you, forming a soundtrack for and changing the shape of the rest of your day.
It’s appropriate that a debut album concern itself with creation and Seven Sisters is no exception. Whether it is the creation of love and a place for that love, as the narrative of the album suggests; or the creation of the universe, as the album’s title and repetition of astronomical and astrological imagery suggests; Beta Radio’s lyrics and music carve out a space in your head and find a way to fit into your own cosmology.
Lyrically, Seven Sisters explores religion, albeit from a couch rather than a pulpit. The religious allusions are subtle and unobtrusive, concerning themselves more with mysticism than proselytization, much like David Eugene Edwards’ 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand.
Line for line, the lyrics are beautiful and surprising. In “A Place for Me” the lines “I wanted not to fight / With my heart but I’ll fight with my fists all night” evoke the heartache of leaving, of lovers’ spats of loss and regret.
The album leaves you with a simple but urgent lyric refrain in “Return to Darden Road”– “Where do you go? / Come back to me / ‘Cause I love you so.” Review by deckfight
Musically reminiscent at times of Bon Iver’s atmosphere heavy For Emma, Forever Ago or the Grateful Dead’s “Mountains of the Moon” from their 1969 release Aoxomoxoa, the sonic landscape of the band's album Seven Sisters is sparse but far from empty. On tracks like “Khima,” “Borderline” and “Brother, Sister,” the slow scrawl of the banjo melody floats through the song and surrounds you like birdsong, coming at you predictably but surprisingly from several directions at once. Each of the songs on this album stays with you, forming a soundtrack for and changing the shape of the rest of your day.
It’s appropriate that a debut album concern itself with creation and Seven Sisters is no exception. Whether it is the creation of love and a place for that love, as the narrative of the album suggests; or the creation of the universe, as the album’s title and repetition of astronomical and astrological imagery suggests; Beta Radio’s lyrics and music carve out a space in your head and find a way to fit into your own cosmology.
Lyrically, Seven Sisters explores religion, albeit from a couch rather than a pulpit. The religious allusions are subtle and unobtrusive, concerning themselves more with mysticism than proselytization, much like David Eugene Edwards’ 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand.
Line for line, the lyrics are beautiful and surprising. In “A Place for Me” the lines “I wanted not to fight / With my heart but I’ll fight with my fists all night” evoke the heartache of leaving, of lovers’ spats of loss and regret.
The album leaves you with a simple but urgent lyric refrain in “Return to Darden Road”– “Where do you go? / Come back to me / ‘Cause I love you so.” Review by deckfight
I Heard the Bells
Beta Radio Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'I Heard the Bells' by these artists:
Bing Crosby Joy to the world Let earth receive her King I heard the…
Diana Ross I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols…
Elizabeth Chan O-oh! Ho! Ho! O-oh I heard the bells on Christmas day The…
Harry Belafonte I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar Carols…
MercyMe [henry wadsworth longfellow] I heard the bells on Christmas…
Slugs & Bugs Empty lawn, hollow head, tired cry, fake smile What would i…
The Great Collections Uhhh la la la i heard the bells on Christmas day Uhhh…
The Journey Collective I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols…
The Yuletide Singers & Orchestra I heard the voice of Jesus say "Come unto Me and…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Beta Radio:
A Place for Me I lost my keys Finder of all lost things Are they in…
Angels We Have Heard on High Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o'er the plains…
Auld Lang Syne Should Old Acquaintance be forgot and never thought upon? Th…
Aware for It All Something is happening in your backyard - be aware! Someone …
Bees and Swans Oh my colossus I'm blind But I can see this room so…
Brother Sister Lost it seems, brother the days that we Could wrestle on…
Brother, Sister Lost it seems, brother the days that we Could wrestle on…
Come on Make It Right Once soon come on make it right once any other night comes…
Darden Road In new Princeton Place They have luxury homes And you coul…
Don't Leave Me Behind Sometimes I feel what I can’t translate Don’t leave me behin…
East of Tennessee are you a meat eater forsaking the plant? i'm here under…
Either Way Oh love of mine is this your design? Can we not…
First Began i wrote my name in the wall of the bathroom only…
Gone for a While Weigh laid by wild ideas and lines He said lean into…
Hello Lovely I wrote a poem for you You didn't have to ask…
Highlight on the Hill I have seen the highlight on the hill And brother if…
I Am Mine "i am mine i am my own" said the ancients years…
Khima I thought that All the beauty Passing through me Would be so…
Kilimanjaro on kilimanjaro on fuji i'm waiting come yellow dawn summer's…
Monument Build your heart let it grow Your design can still be…
On the Frame can you hear me father john? have you lost what you…
On Your Horizon Between my head and my horizon I scan to find a…
Our Remains I survived the wasteland Of taste and tongues but can't deny…
Pleiades Both the bears are in their chairs They're sitting in your…
Realistic City Living I arrived on earth In no form of my Choosing Born a…
Return to Darden Road In new Princeton Place They have luxury homes And you could …
Sans Land I'm lost in Whatever I believe But the one path's grown up L…
Sitting Room In my living room In my sitting room I will wait for…
Take My Photograph take my photograph my portrait don't hang it on a wall…
The Man Grows I left my dreams, on the ocean it seems Where the…
The Song the Season Brings In my heart, I feel how this years end should…
Thine Are Mine Through thy partition I saw an apparition A body that previo…
Tongue Tied Tongue Tied I can feel the shadows Your eyes I don't know 'e…
Where Losers Do I've been a wonderin' where I'm goin' a second time around, …
White Fawn a light in the dark split through the trees appearing in…
Widow at the Wake (Verse 1) A widow at the wake A line, she drew a…
Winter Eclipse On the winter solstice, the moon was eclipsed in my…
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kayla vega
THIS SONG IS AMAZING AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY MORE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT HONESTLY A MASTERPIECE I LOVE YOUR WORK YOU KEEP DOING THIS BECAUSE IT'S GREAT!!!
Brian Cruickshank
Beautiful piece. Thanks
Tony D
Take heart - you are suffering from the same loneliness and despair that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow suffered from when he wrote the poem that inspired this modern rendition. Don’t worry about how many people like the song. Share it and let it live on its own without any strings attached.
What a moving rendition that Beta Radio brought into the modern world. It was comfort during a civil war then when Longfellow wrote it, and God knows that same comfort is needed badly again.
Tony D
….. how did you like that little touch at the end, the Morse code SOS signal I believe it is? I think all of us overwhelmed by the insurgence of hatred going on right now are all sending an SOS out to the Eternal.