Fight Like Apes are due to release their awesomely-titled second album The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner on August 27th on Model Citizen records. The album was produced by Andy Gill of Gang of Four. You may have heard ‘Hoo Ha Henry’ already (if not click more), here’s track seven from the album, ‘Poached Egg’, which is centred around the repeating phrase “When thumbs get split / chicks get lit”:
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Fight Like Apes – Hoo Ha Henry
Tracklisting
- Come On, Let’s Talk About Our Feelings
- Jenny Kelly
- Pull Off Your Arms And Lets Play In Your Blood
- Hoo Ha Henry
- Katmandu (Face It, You’re Caviar, I’m Hotdogs)
- Thank God You Weren’t Thirsty (Lightbulb)
- Poached Eggs
- Captain A-Bomb
- Waking Up With Robocop
- Indie Monster
- H + Z5 Together At Last
- Ice Cream Apple Fuck
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Not as big a fan of this one as I was of ‘Hoo Ha Henry’. Maybe it’s the production, but it doesn’t sound as good as their other stuff. I could just need more listens though.
yea thats even more rubbish than hoo -ha- whatever!!!
The songs are OK, but the sound quality is absolutely simply dire. Is it meant to sound like that and if so, what went wrong?
Ah the song is good , hardly rubbish! Hood Henry would get an 8/10 from me and Poached Egg an almost 7/10….
Production sounds fine to my ears??
I dunno Ro. While the songs are OK, the productions sounds very weak – the normally ferocious distortion is as flimsy as cling film here and is very irritating as a result.
It’s the same on both songs too.
the phrase sounds “ok” keeps popping up. its a phrase that describes everything they do perfectly!
love her.
i was never a fan tbh but i thought they would progress as a band into something intresting but they just aren’t ,if anything it sounds like they are going backwards. the sound isnt great there is nothing worse than distortion done badly lol
may is great though
A more filthy grittier noisier sound than their polish first album is what I hear. A return the to rawness of their 2 EPs is it? Guessing Andy Gill had something to do with this…
Maybe I need a few more listens but sounds very disappointing to me. Both tracks lack the zip and pop of the previous album. The production does seem “cheap” as opposed to “raw” but it’s the songs themselves which leave me with bit of feeling of meh.
I’m a big fan so hopefully a few listens of the full album will prove me wrong.
Sounds too thinny, that fuzzy distortion noise going does my head in, it’s all a bit too panny of something, makes my eyes go crosseyed when I listen to it in headphones, haha, best I can describe it.
what happened to all the cooments that were here? only allowing positives one’s now?
New comment system so I’ve temporarily lost the older ones.