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Fight Like Apes

The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner

Second album of raucous synthpop / pop-punk from the Irish band fronted by Mary-Kate Geraghty, and produced by Gang of Four's Andy Gill

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6.4

Label
Model Citizen
UK Release date
25/04/2011
US Release date
26/04/2011
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  1. 8.0 |   BBC

    The real joy of this record is that, behind the sulking and swearing, the clips of sampled speech and toying yelps, are 12 gloriously penned pieces of unadulterated pop
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  2. 7.0 |   State

    A good album, but not the knock-out they may yet have in them
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  3. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    When it's good, it's very very good, and when it's bad, it can veer from dull to irritating and back again over the course of a single verse
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  4. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Fight Like Apes delight in their own cackhanded methods, and the odd sloppy sample or laughable lyric are merely grist to their deliberately anarchic mill
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  5. 6.0 |   NME

    Lacks that bouncy, bratty energy of old
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  6. 6.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The band's not-so-secret weapon is leading lady MayKay, who's as likely to adopt a throaty Debbie Harry-esque purr as she is a hushed whisper or shouty tantrum
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  7. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Sadly from the midpoint – shall we say two inches down from Christ’s belly button, but above Tina Turner is good stuff – the record starts to lose itself
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