Riot, by Golden Apes

Riot

by Golden Apes

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Marit Klotzs Really powerful and eclectic release - very well done as usual! Favorite track: Riot.

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1.	Prelude 01:31	buy track
2.	Devil 05:14	buy track
3.	Torment 05:07	buy track
4.	Vengeance 03:48	buy track
5.	Heart's Corrosion 04:39	buy track
6.	Prudence 05:01	buy track
7.	White Days 05:07	buy track
8.	Lithium 03:26	buy track
9.	Pieces 05:11	buy track
10.	(The Lights of) Venus 05:37	buy track
11.	Animæ 03:15	buy track
12.	The Happy Losers Sweet Delusions 05:43	buy track
13.	Riot 08:56	buy track

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It's no contingency that RIOT is an unusual simple title for a Golden Apes album and it is no contingency as well, that meanwhile the 7th studio album of the Berlin-based Gothrockers sounds noticable direct and resolute. Because the last two years were a time of continuous change and alteration, of upswing and shift for the band.

And so Riot is caesura and conclusion similarly, last point and new chapter. It is the musical essence of a band, that never brooked catchyness and artistic standards as an incoherency and which remains true stylistically to itself, but defines itself anew over and over again.

Musical basement of the sextette are catchy melodies, woven in a texture of strong guitars, elegiac sound landscapes and dark, melancholic vocals, on which pictographic, surreal lyrics build up, that form a lyric full of mystic and disturbing fascination between dream and reality, philosophy and trivial emotions.

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released November 30, 2012

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Golden Apes Berlin, Germany

From the veiny rivers of melancholy to the craggy rocks of disturbance, from the glaciated deserts of bleakness to the vast oceans of longing, from the lightless chasms of despair to the highest peaks piercing a bright sky - you can't put your finger on an emotional map and find certainty about the place the music of Golden Apes will bring you to... ... more

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