Artist: Fight Like Apes
Title: How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns?
Label: Fifa
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 183kbit av.
Time: 00:11:55
Size: 16.29 mb
Rip Date: 2008-12-06
Str Date: 2008-00-00
1. Jake Summers 3:55
2. Lend Me Your Face 1:54
3. You Are The Hat 2:12
4. Battlestations 3:54
Release Notes:
You've probably heard of Fight Like Apes by now; and if you
haven't, get ready to. This Dublin quartet have fast become
one of the city's hottest acts in recent months, and now, with
the release of their debut EP (the extravagantly-titled 'How
Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns?') are set
to cement their footing on everyone's 'Top Tip' lists. Running
time is a mere twelve minutes long, but that just makes the
four tracks here all the sweeter. Jake Summers - named for a
character from '90s teen comedy California Dreams (or a porn
star - your choice) - is a dizzy punk-synth explosion, with
singer MayKay's scratchy yelp eliciting comparisons with Karen
O or Siouxsie Sioux; You Are the Hat's disconcerting
electro-scuzz is My Bloody Valentine-esque, while the more
structured Battlestations is a twisted, haphazard synthfest
that sounds like a modern take on an '80s video nasty
compilation. The real gem here, however, is the almost
physically stunning Lend Me Your Face, a razor-sharp peal of
punk thunder that sees MayKay yowl 'I wanna put you in a cast
/ And cast off my memories of where you been at'. How Am I
Supposed to Kill You.. is an absolute sucker-punch of a debut
release from a band who could well fill the 'Next Big Thing'
slot that the now-defunct Immediate have left vacant.