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 Post subject: Ape Machine - War To Head
PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:11 pm 

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‘What a fucking great record’ was my first thought. I’d only heard the first three tracks and already I knew I wanted to write about it. Now I’m just shaking my head at the record. Like what Asteroid did to 70s influenced rock and what Shellfin did to Kyuss-influenced stoner rock last year, Ape Machine have taken a well formulated and tried and tested type of rock and did something new with it. Like finding a new use for a limb. Or even when a baby discovers their hands, that kind of ‘oh these can do this!’ moments.

Essentially Ape Machine have produced a very well made and interesting record. Animated guitar work drive the record, it is all about those tasty riffs, they’re not laden with nth degree fuzz, they’re clean and sharp and bounce. Augmented with a honey warm guitar tone that is so sweet you want to lick the ripping solos.

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Most importantly, what has grabbed my attention is Ape Machine’s fantastic song writing abilities. Eschewing typical structures of most rock and roll output, each track reveals a huge variety of writing, to such an extent that they’re almost all linearly structured with barely any catchy choruses to prop up a song, which I think is fucking great. Imaginative song writing in stoner rock I have found isn’t rare but nor is it common, and, well, Ape Machine have created a highly interesting record with curves and height and imagination that it has captured my attention to all their future endeavours.

Say if Greenleaf (a thoroughbred of a band) dropped ‘War To Head’ I would applaud them for their genius, but because this has come form relative unknowns as Ape Machine are, I am clamouring to touch the hem of their robes hoping some of that magic brushes off on me.

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