Coming to
you from the very psychedelic North West of England is Manchester’s Dead Sea Apes, another band that has fully absorbed that city’s rich musical heritage
and is now twisting it into strange new shapes. A joint release by Cardinal Fuzz and Sunrise Ocean Bender, Spectral Domain is the third album by Dead Sea
Apes and is possibly best described as Industrial Space Rock………………dark,
claustrophobic soundscapes driven by a deep bass rumble that drag the listener
to places not from this Earth. Post Rock, Space Rock, Noise Rock and Industrial
Dub are ripped apart and reassembled in a new form; a primal force that crushes
everything in its vicinity.
Spectral
Domain opens with the pummeling, primitive groove of ‘Universal Interrogator’,
an absolute juggernaut of a track. Dead Sea Apes hit a groove and subtlety
explore the space around it, slowly shaping the tune into an epic slab of Noise
Rock. ‘True Believers’ is more of the same foggy, bass heavy Stoner Rock, so
dense and suffocating that it sucks all the air out of room…………..play these
tracks loud and let Dead Sea Apes pull you into their strange orbit. The
hypnotic, Eastern flavoured, ‘The Unclosing Eye’ is a fantastic track…….driven
by rolling drums it has the vibe of Can’s sonic adventures from their very
early albums while ‘Brought To Light’ is a swirling Post Rock soundscape that
has the feel of the more experimental side of bands like Mogwai. The album
closes with ‘Sixth Side Of The Pentagon’, a dark, brooding, deep dub from a
Post Punk, J G Ballard vision of a dystopian future, very much in the fashion
of Joy Division, Pere Ubu and Metal Box era PiL, where paranoia and State
surveillance is rife. This is psychedelic music but with a real sense of danger.
Spectral
Domain is released on 26th September to coincide with Dead Sea Apes appearance
at the Liverpool Psych Fest and will be available on purple and clear vinyl swirl
with the CD and download only available directly from the band. Pre-orders for
this record are available now, but hurry as they are selling fast……..for you
good people in the UK and the rest of Europe, the Cardinal Fuzz web store
appears to have sold all their vinyl copies, we suggest that you contact the
good Cardinal for information about the further availability of this great
record. However, if you are quick, you can buy the vinyl and CD version of
Spectral Domain directly from the band at http://deadseaapes.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-domain
where the digital download is also available to buy. Stateside the album is
being released by Sunrise Ocean Bender and is available to pre-order from their
online store and also from the SOB Bandcamp page at https://sunriseoceanbender.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-domain.
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