Beekeeping (album)

Beekeeping is a 2008 album by Minneapolis alternative rock band Polara, their fifth and final full-length release.

Released six years after the band's previous album Jetpack Blues and a few months after the more introspective solo album Ed Ackerson,[2] the lineup on Beekeeping included founding members Ackerson and guitarist Jennifer Jurgens, as well as drummer Peter Anderson.

"[1] Chris Riemenschneider of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune said that after the mellower Ed Ackerson album, Beekeeping had brought Ackerson back "to the feistier, fuzzier sound of his old band", comparing the sound to a more "psychedelic" Stone Roses.

[4] A reviewer for the music blog WeHeartMusic said that "Polara possesses what I consider the classic Twin Cities rock sound" and that Beekeeping "filled me with a sort of heady euphoria that will have me buzzing around the neighborhood for hours.

"[3] Andrea Myers of City Pages said that Polara "masterfully balance the accessibility of hooky Britpop with the oddity of adding layers of fuzz and feedback to an otherwise clean sound.