Fight Like Apes-And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion-2008-DV8
Artist: Fight Like Apes
Title: And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion
Label: Model Citizen
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 211kbit av.
Time: 00:35:58
Size: 57.55 mb
Rip Date: 2008-09-29
Str Date: 2008-10-06
1. Something Global 3:50
2. Jake Summers 3:44
3. Tie Me Up With Jackets 2:35
4. Digifucker 3:25
5. Lend Me Your Face 1:49
6. Battlestations 3:33
7. Do You Karate? 2:21
8. Megameanie 0:08
9. I'm Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 3:23
90210 To Me
10. Lumpy Dough 3:20
11. Recyclable Ass 2:30
12. Snore Bore Whore 5:20
Release Notes:
Every few years, our little country belches out a band that
accurately captures the zeitgeist and epitomises all that is
good and healthy about the Irish music scene. More often than
not, praise is heaped and hopes are pinned upon these bands,
only for the incessant, histrionic build-up to override the
substance. But Fight Like Apes are different. Having already
received impressive plaudits from UK and Irish press on the
back of their two excellent EPs and a handful of limited
edition singles, the Dubliners know all about riding the crest
of the hype-wave. Certainly, if you've experienced a FLA live
show, you'll be aware that they look about as serious as Mary
Harney on rollerblades - but what differentiates the
synth-rock quartet from their po-faced contemporaries is their
ability to coordinate the tawdry, with songs of depth and
meaning.
Chief songwriters MayKay and Pockets are a talented duo,
that's for sure; basing your predominant sound around
synthesisers these days is a risky manoeuvre, but when the
songs are as motley and as colourful as these are, it works
almost intuitively. Producer John Goodmanson (Death Cab for
Cutie, Nada Surf) has harnessed the band's sometimes-chaotic
tendencies without blunting their sharp edges - best heard on
the re-recorded versions of EP tracks Jake Summers and
Battlestations - while live favourite Lend Me Your Face is
more melodic and rounded, if perhaps not as instantly forceful
as its original.
There's great range here, too; although Fight Like Apes excel
at the driving, punky, venomous pop best heard on the sublime
Do You Karate? and Digifucker, they're more than capable of
mixing it up with melancholic downers like Tie Me Up With
Jackets and Lumpy Dough. MayKay's wry, heartbreak-inspired
lyrics provide the perfect foil to the sometimes-whimsical
soundtrack, too - her voice capable of jumping from skewed
lullabies to the wail of a thousand banshees in seconds flat.
More than anything else, though, Fight Like Apes and the
Mystery of the Golden Medallion embodies a sense of
excitement, and above all, impulsive fun - something that
debut albums are rarely plucky enough to exhibit. An absolute
thrill, from start to finish.
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