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Dead Sea Apes - Spectral Domain (2015)

Hitting their third album with this release, the Manchester-based squad of Dead Sea Apes cruises through a heavy psych storm with enough control to keep it rooted to interesting material, and enough looseness that you'll have little idea where they're headed next.  From the dead night highway sounds of "Universal Interrogator" at the start of the album, all the way through to "Sixth Side of the Pentagon", Dead Sea Apes maintain a shifting wash of sounds called up from their strings, pedals, and drum-kit, varying the experimentation while keeping solid grooves going.  It hits the 'dunk your head in this and see how you feel' sort of metallic heavy psych extremely well, and you can tell that they're having a good time with the material (although practice for getting the spacy rhythms together just right could easily have seen some wear on the nerves).  All around, damn good stuff, and a strong contender for this year's Top 20.
~ Gabriel

For Fans Of;    Headless Kross, Nelly Olsen, Norska, Terminal Cheesecake, Venus Sleeps

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Dead Sea Apes - The Unclosing Eye (320 kbps)

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Parting The Waves...

Dead Sea Apes - Soy Dios (2010)

It's been a bit of a post rock sort of affair this week from the looks of things, so I may as well round the week off in a similar fashion.
Today ladies and gents I'm bringing you some absolutely cracking displays of ambient prog, in the form of UK based sound smiths Dead Sea Apes. Doing the rounds for the last couple of years now, the trio have done well to hone their talents into a three progressively more detailed, layered and impressive little albums. This, the guy's first release really sees them planting their feet in the genre so to speak. Very much bordering on the boundaries of drone for its entirety, it's still manages to produce a certain something thats able to keep me hooked. Not an easy feat when faced with someone such as myself who doesn't actively prefer the genre. I think its the fine balance of well presented ambience and the down right mellowness of the structure that must almost hypnotise you into maintaining for the full 10 minutes of each track. It's not going to be everyones cup of tea but what ever your views on the genre may be, if you ever like to just lay back and chill out for 30 minutes then you really should give these guys a try.
Soy Dios, their debut from 2010 is available on their bandcamp page and you can name your price. Their most recent two releases Astral House and Lupus are also up for you're listening pleasure but you are going to have to part with a few bucks. Very small price to pay for some quality tunes if you ask me...
~ Jay

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Soy Dios (320kbps)