LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz (UK)

$24

DEAD SEA APES are back with a fierce new album – PSYCHIC

TENSION – an urgent soundtrack for the nerve-shredding times we live

in. Our collective psyche is under attack, reeling from the chaos of a

modern world under siege: from war, death, destruction and climate

catastrophe to political decay, media manipulation, growing inequality

and the rank depravity of the so-called elite. Do we overload ourselves

with anxiety, vent our frustration at others, make token gestures to ease

our conscience, or just try to carry on regardless? Dead Sea Apes have

wrestled these dilemmas – this Psychic Tension – into sonic/musical form,

creating catharsis from the chaos. 

Psychic Tension picks up where previous album Rewilding left off,

carrying forward the momentum of massive riffs, juggernaut rhythms and

squalling sonic overload. Noise rock, Japanese psych, minimal dub and

Electric-era Miles are all part of the mix: each member of Dead Sea

Apes brings decades of musical exploration to bear on the music. The

iterative repetition of Can meets the telepathic mind-meld of the power

trio; the deceptive simplicity of Crazy Horse is pulled through the sonics

of PSF Records; the live-in-the-practice-room energy is bolstered by

layered landscapes of sound – from ethereal echoes to feedback drones

to transistor-torturing lead lines.

Dead Sea Apes have always followed their own path, the music

instinctively wired into to the world around them. On Psychic

Tension they have once again cooked up a sound that is wholly their

own, speaking directly to the turmoil within us and surrounding us in

these wild times.

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Brett Savage – Guitars

Jack Toker – Bass, Guitars

Chris Hardman – Drums

Recorded and mixed by Chris Hardman

Cover art and design by Brett Savage