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The Apers - Reanimate My Heart
  MP3 CBR 320 | 28:55 min |  66 MB

If you like Screeching Weasel-esque pop-punk, look no further than The Apers. A band that tour extremely hard on the European mainland, they've nailed the sweet vocal melodies that bands like Screeching Weasel and The Queers have trademarked over the years.


“Dutch pop-punkers the Apers have made a decent career out of fairly utilitarian melodic ramalama in the great Lookout! Records tradition. Of course, with that long-running label falling apart in the early 2000s and most of the scene's key bands either going part-time or breaking up as their leaders pursue more mature career paths (The Mr. T Experience's Dr. Frank is now a best-selling novelist, while the Smugglers' Grant Lawrence is a popular disc jockey in his native Canada), someone needs to step up their game to fill the vacuum. Reanimate My Heart shows that the Apers may well be that band, even if they perhaps aren't quite there yet. There are no outright clunkers among these ten well-constructed tracks, but several lack the spark of lyrical wit or tuneful hooks that would push them beyond merely serviceable. However, the album's better tracks are killers: "Rather Eat Glass" and "Back Against the Wall" mix the requisite snottiness with hyperactively tuneful riffs, and even the lyrically average opener "It's All Over You Know" throws in some surprisingly Beatlesque backing vocals. At its best, Reanimate My Heart is every bit as good as a quality Screeching Weasel or Queers album, which is all the praise it needs.

~ Stewart Mason, all media guide
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Tracklist:

01. It's All Over You Know
02. Back Against The Wall
03. Reanimate My Heart
04. The Night Feels So Much Better Than The Day
05. Behind Enemy Lines
06. Rather Eat Glass
07. Falling Apart
08. Not The Only One
09. N210
10. It Just Don't Matter Anymore

Produced by V. Koreman and P. Leenhouts
Recorded on September 29th until October 2nd at Studio 195, Wernhout, The Nederlands
by P. Delabie, V. Koreman and P. Leenhouts. Mixed & Mastered by P. Leenhouts & V. Koreman.

• Kevin Aper - vocals, bass
• Marien Nicotine - guitar & backing vocals
• Ivo Backbreaker - drums
• Kelvin Centerfold - guitar & backing vocals

Released: February 12, 2007
Label: Insubordination Records
Catalog No.: ISR-050