Dead Sea Apes
Rewilding
Repress on white vinyl. Dead Sea Apes are back with a passion to deliver their most essential and cohesive album to date. Formed in 2009, Dead Sea Apes have become a fixture of the psych scene, sharing stages with the likes of Part Chimp, The Heads, Acid Mothers Temple and Mugstar while producing a distinctive body of work, ranging from psychedelic punk to experimental dub, from freeform jams to constructions of loops and drones. Following a slew of collaborations and split releases, 'Rewilding' sees them return to a power trio of Brett Savage (guitar), Jack Toker (bass) and Chris Hardman (drums). From the chaotic blast of opener 'Denialist,' beaming out like a maniacal emergency broadcast, through to the monolithic pounding of the title track, 'Rewilding' is unrelenting, taking in blown-out guitar wails and jet black psych noise while the irrepressible rhythm section moves from claustrophobic motorik beats to a thunderous rolling juggernaut. These blackened pearls have been recast and refined over the course of the past three years, strung out deeper than the night and now embodying our present uncanny, disorienting times, as we emerge into an altered world to find Mother Nature reasserting herself while the human madness intensifies, locally and globally. Savage and uncompromising, this is Dead Sea Apes their most direct and visceral.