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Witness the all-encompassing brilliance of Liverpool's "every-wave"
obsessive compulsives, chewing up elements of every musical genre you
ever heard (and a few you haven't), carefully and carelessly churning
them into new, unrecognisable, magnificent shapes.
a.P.A.t.T.
had a very busy 2008! Their second full length CD release entitled 'Black
And White Mass' on Pickled
Egg Records (home to Need
New Body, Bablicon,
The
Go Team, Daniel
Johnston , Fulborn
Teversham , etc) was Huw Stephen's Album Of The Week, and received
a bunch of glowing reviews. They also released a 3 track 12" vinyl
split with Stig
Noise on Class
A Audio Records. Look out for the album on CHINCHILLA-TONE in 2009!
"a.P.A.t.T.
are currently an enticing, bewildering and daunting prospect. They can
sweep through several genres in the space of an opening verse, rewriting
musical histories with a collectively raised eyebrow. If you so much
as dip your toes in to test the water, you find yourself dragged into
a Wonka-esque tour of expertly-executed skits that take in Zappa, classical
music both ancient and modern, punk, jazz, metal and a whole bundle
of stuff that hasn't been invented yet. Dexterous, monstrous and mind-wideningly
wondrous." Hayley Avron (Plan
B, October 2007)
"Oh I dont know, there are no words for this. a.P.A.t.T.
are so easy to listen to when they really shouldn't be, it should just
be a mess - right now its some kind of minimal organic synth and delicate
singing of paradise and others coming to harm, or was it just a false
alarm as it all builds up so so deliciously once more. Hey look, track
one is called The Man Returns From Here After With A Future Flower -
that really explains it all, a future flower. My CD player says theres
66 tracks, the CD cover says 8, I heard at least 103 (or maybe it was
just one long piece?). They're a band, dont go thinking this is some
wise-ass cut-up studio nerd gang of them in masks and anti-radiation
suits or something like that. Hey look, if you want something challenging,
something beautiful, something different, something violent, something
soothing, something like you never heard before then this is where you
need to go this week." Sean (organ.com)
"a.P.A.t.T. are a motherfucking experience. Probably the only
UK band i can think of to come up with their vision of the dark, vicious
and fuck me, rather scary vision of the ACID PUNK dropped onto us from
the visions of Gibby from the Butthole Surfers. We love them. You need
to hear this. It's insane." Alan Mcgee (Creation/Poptones)
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