Apache Dropout - Apache Dropout

Apache Dropout is a full on lysergic boogie trio from Southern Indiana who’ve self-released a handful of recordings while touring the sub-U.S. during the past couple years. Finally, their debut LP is here to catch you up with their three-minute-&-less anthems crafted of ‘60s epoch fuzz. With just guitar/bass/drums they channel soul melodies, primitive rock thump and blasted solos that are soaked in the dimethyl-trip of teenage visions (see songs “Sam Phillips Rising” and “God Bless You Johan Kugelberg” for that) and a few whifs of Tuli Kupferberg. Sonny Alexander is the enigmatic howler/guitarist whose swagger and melted riffs lead the way. Formed in 2008, the group’s previous endeavors include John Wilkes Booze, Hot Fighter #1 and Lord Fyre. Recorded by the band at their own Magnetic South studio on all analogue equipment, they’ve used the studio-as-instrument to push these 11 songs into highly textured nuggets of punk art that follow in the wave of The 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvets, and Patti Smith Group. We’ve got no doubt, this is going to floor all ears in 2011. Album art and horn arrangements come by way of John Terrill (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave Dancing Cigarettes) with final audio polishing by engineer Paul “Z” Mahern, vocalist of the legendary Zero Boys. This is real rock ‘n’ roll. RIYL: Dead Moon, Purrling Hiss, Black Keys, The Velvet Underground, The 13th Floor Elevators, or the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 compilation.

Tracklisting:

1. I’m So Glad
2. Teenager
3. Nothing in My Hand
4. It’s a Nightmare
5. Sam Phillips Rising
6. Run Peacock Run
7. Dry Basement
8. Sylvia
9. White Out Man
10. God Bless You Johan Kugelberg
11. Cha Cha

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