Out of all the nine tracks I produced for Ape last year this is my personal favourite.
It’s got this strange dark undercurrent going on- with monks chanting and a lot of dissonance-some people find it quite hard to listen to but it seems absolutely perfect to me—balanced-but just teetering on the edge of disaster.

I played it to someone once in headphones and they said it felt like their head was being pulled apart!! Someone else described it in a blog as sounding like “making filthy love in a railway arch, whilst on acid, in 1940s New York”. Which of course I was thrilled by.

When it was in its early days as a bunch of unconnected noises put together by me and Andy, I played it to some other singers to see if they were interested in contributing to it- the reaction was “no- its shit!!”.- hahah – But Jen took these completely random bits of music and glued them into something completely different. From then on it just needed organizing and arranging. I spent months lovingly tweaking and moving it about in a dark obsessive manner.

The video came about as I was messing about watching old cartoons and simultaneously listening to music. I slowed down a Little Audrey cartoon from 1949 to half speed and it’s as if it was made for it- quite spooky really.

It’s on the Hard Listening EP which of course everyone should buy.

 

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Its here the APE RADIO, that is non stop songs by APE artists 24 hours a day brought to you via a custom built desktop player.

Here is a sneak preview of whats instore. You’ll hear a totally random cross section through the ever expanding APE catalogue to delight your ears and who knows, maybe even be as turned on as the funky little player when you hear something you’ve never heard before.

For the techies amongst you just click on the radio share button to get your copy, or for us mere mortals get intallation instructions here.

Giddy is the first Pugwash release on Ape. Out on 21st September, the album is a compilation of classic finely crafted pop songs from Pugwash’s previous albums.

Listen to this the first part of 3 pugcasts where Thomas Walsh and Keith Farrell talk you through the first 4 tracks on the album.

Thomas Walsh is one half of the Duckworth Lewis Method, a project with Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy where they recorded an album of songs inspired totally by the wonderful game of cricket.

You will be able to pre order your copy of Giddy very shortly and get a digital copy of the album FREE when you order.

 

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