High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bee Thousand is the seventh album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices released on June 21, 1994. As with most of the band`s previous albums, it was recorded on consumer-quality audio recorders rather than in a studio, and many of the songs are less than two minutes long. After its release the band became one of the more prominent groups associated with the "lo-fi" genre, a movement defined by the relatively poor recording quality of audio releases. Musically, the album draws inspiration from British Invasion-era rock music and punk rock. Following the release of Bee Thousand, the band began to attract interest from other record labels, eventually signing with Matador for their next album.