Release Date: 18 May 2015
Label: Alcopop
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060091557390
Genres: Rock Alternative
Release Date: 17 March 2023
Label: Alcopop
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3617054087801
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
Like a snotty kid poking a dead crow with a shitty stick; or a scabby knee that you just can't help but keep picking at; these are scenes from the A&E at the end of the world, and fight like apes are open for admissions.
Finally here, after an epic wait post an incredibly successful fundit.ie campaign, Fight Like Apes are back with their third album (this time self-titled) and it's undeniably their best yet. Still in touch with the snarling chorus lines, acerbic wit and sometimes angelic, other moment banshee- like vocals from Irish television star May Kay, there's enough of the traditional FLApes feel to keep the fans interested, but this album tells of something new… Something wonderful. Something that looks set to catapult these stars of the underground into something interstellar.
Fight Like Apes have always known their way around a bona fide radio hit, and there's no shortage of those on this record, with a handful of tracks jostling for position to be first single; 'Pretty Keen on Centrefolds' and 'Pop Itch' great examples of those. Meanwhile the power just keeps coming, and even in more tender moments such as 'Carousel' or 'The Hunk and the Funpalace' huge melodic moments pop out from everywhere with rattling synths and drums and all things wonderful.
We're just gonna come out with it. This sounds like a number 1 album!
"An explosive and triumphant return" - Sunday Business Post
"A head-spinning slice of twentysomething life" - Hot Press
"This is their dirty heart, and it's beating hard" - The Sunday Tribune
Description
Returning for just a couple of goodbye shows, Fight Like Apes, quite simply, are one of Dublin's finest ever live bands. Acerbic and exotic. Individual and evocative, Fight Like Apes have toured the UK with The Von Bondies, The Ting Tings, New Found Glory and The Prodigy and have played stacks of Irish and European festivals throughout their career.
They have appeared on several television shows in Ireland, including Tubridy Tonight, WeTV, The View, Other Voices and The Cafe. They have also had some success in Asia, where they have been signed up by Sony Music Entertainment Japan for an album release on that continent in April 2009. The band have been nominated for five Meteor Music Awards, the Choice Music Prize and got three top 3 charting albums... One of them named the best album of the decade by Phantom FM. Fight Like Apes were named the fourth best Irish musical act of their generation by The Irish Times in 2009.
Preceded by lead single 'Pretty Keen on Centrefolds' is perhaps the very best moment of their third, self-titled, album - Fight Like Apes, finally being issued on vinyl for the VERY first time ever. Released in conjunction with the vinyl preorder, it celebrates this iconic band who, even 6 years after they split up, managed to sell out Dublin Olympia in under 24 hours.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Fight Like Apes
Fight Like Apes
Fight Like Apes
Heavy Lungs
Ditz
Indoor Pets
Gaffa Tape Sandy
BO NINGEN
CHERYM
DITZ
CHROMA
