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Fight Like Apes have released the artwork (pictured below) and tracklisting (also below) for their new album entitled The Body of Christ and The Legs of Tina Turner . The follow up to Fight Like Apes and The Mystery Golden Medallion will be released August 27th on Model Citizen records, available for download, CD or limited version CD with t-shirt. The reshuffled band wrote the album in a North Dublin garage then decamped to London where they worked with producer Andy Gill (Gang Of 4, Futureheads, Young Knives, Red Hot Chili [...]

Thought I'd share thoughts on my favourite albums of 2009. I actually listened to over 75 this year, which is a massive record for me. All thanks to we7.com and Spotify Premium. Seeing as I'd be happy to recommend about a third of those albums, I decided to list my twenty favourite albums of 2009. Albeit without a ranking order for #20 - #11 because everything kept moving around. It's all a bit arbitrary anyway. I might have titled this post as such but this isn't really the "best" albums of 2009 but the ones that connected [...]

Now is about that time of year when I start to get the question, "so, do you have any recommendations for new tunes?" a lot, so as a public service to my pals (and anyone else looking for relatively sage advice regarding new music purchases), I thought I'd take a quarterly look at what's new, interesting, and worth your time. Here's what I'm digging most in '09: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz! The YYYs have made the dance-punk album that's always been [...]

I'm a simple man. I just want a band with synthesizer and girls yelling that sounds like McLusky. Is that so wrong? There are various comparisons you can make in the case of Fight Like Apes —their Wikipedia page throws in Devo, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and a bunch of ones that baffle me—but on appearances alone, you might mention Fall Out Boy , at least insofar as wordy, knowing, jokey titles are anything to go by. (There's a song on their debut called "I'm Beginning [...]