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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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