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Recondite update

Posted in Merch, Recording on 24/01/2018 by chrish

Thanks to everyone who’s pre-ordered Recondite. It is now sold out on vinyl and CD on our Bandcamp and at Cardinal Fuzz – if you’re still after the vinyl, you may try Sunrise Ocean Bender (USA), Norman Records (UK), or Shiny Beast (NL), or ask your preferred retailer to get it in from Clear Spot distro. And if you’re within reach of Ottawa, check out Canada’s finest record shop Birdman Sound.

Vinyl will start shipping this week, CDs next week and downloads will be released soon…

Here are some reviews: Psych Insight // Heathenmofo // Dayz of Purple and Orange // [sic] // Terrascope // Blurt //

Buy Recondite

Posted in Merch, Recording on 15/01/2018 by chrish

Recondite is now available to order on double LP and CD from Cardinal Fuzz in the UK and Sunrise Ocean Bender in the USA, ahead of the official release on 5th of February. Both labels are also releasing The Final Age by Jesse Webb (ex-Big Naturals & Anthroprophh) and The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol‘s latest Droneverdose so fill yer boots! You can pre-order the download on our Bandcamp.

There’s no question that Manchester’s Dead Sea Apes have made an impressive footprint in the world of heavy psych. Things change quickly from there though. Relying more on gravity – and gravitas – the heaviness of Dead Sea Apes is far beyond an arbitrary turning up of the volume knob and a trip to the the guitar shop for just one more fuzz pedal. Underneath the slow-burn bone-rattlings and rumblings, there’s a deliberateness and nuance to their catalogue that sets them apart from other bands that traffic in bringing the ‘heaviosity’. While their influences and methods may not be obvious to the casual listener, it’s the deep divers that Dead Sea Apes speak to.

A standard issue overview of their work these past nine years would make that obvious to anyone with open ears. Drop the needle on any two points in their catalogue and you’d be hard-pressed to draw a straight line between the two. Psych, space rock, ambient, Krautrock, dub… as muscular and formidable as they are, it’s the subtlety and agility that elevate Dead Sea Apes – and make their brand of heavy psych that much more rewarding. As easy as it would be for them to break your ribs, they’d rather give you something that sticks to them.

That’s where ‘Recondite’ comes in. Released by Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Sunrise Ocean Bender (US), ‘Recondite’ gathers up some choice, elusive and defining nuggets from the Dead Sea Apes’ musical undergrowth for a double album that speaks more to their journey than to a specific time. You’ll find alternate versions (‘Tentacles’, ‘True Believers’), covers (Skip Spence, Harmonia, Kraftwerk) and singular gems all coiling together at last for an opus that is equal parts a document of where they’ve been and, more importantly, a promise of where they still might go.

11 tracks, 80 minutes. Download includes 3 bonus tracks.
Limited edition double LP, black vinyl, with multi-format download included.

The Recondite Dead Sea Apes

Posted in Merch, Recording on 07/01/2018 by chrish

And a happy new year to all our friends and followers. Our next release will be Recondite, a collection of tracks recorded for various compilations and things over the years. It runs the gamut from off-the-cuff jams to dub remixes and includes covers of Kraftwerk, Harmonia and Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence songs. Five of the 11 tracks are appearing on vinyl for the first time. Recondite will be released by Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Sunrise Ocean Bender (USA) on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, and download with three bonus tracks. Release date is 5th February – stay tuned for pre-order information.