Name: Ballet Of Apes
Brand: Brigid Dawson and the Mother's Network

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CF119CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

767870662126

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Brigid Dawson and the Mother's Network

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Castle Face

Tip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown. Lovely though it may seem from a distance, the striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. <i>Ballet of Apes</i> tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls - in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control / Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh and Onlys / Lifetime Ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees / Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers - and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles - white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. This is thrillingly potent stuff and it’s out on Castle Face.

Ballet Of Apes

Music GB