Something Music Kids Might Steal

Fight Like Apes @ Mercury Lounge, 2/17/2010

Something Global / Digifucker / Lend Me Your Face / I’m Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 To Me / Do You Karate? / Jake Summers / Tie Me Up In Jackets / Knucklehead / Lightsaber Cock Sucking Blues / Battlestations

Fight Like Apes rock out. They’re funny. They chat with the audience, and make sure that everyone in the room participates. They do goofy theatrical stunts in concert. Every song is super catchy. Basically, they are ridiculously entertaining. They should not be playing to small crowds in America. This is a band that should have a rabid cult following. There should be hundreds of teens and college kids totally losing their shit at their shows. Yeah, they play with irony and come out of indie, but they should be playing to emo and mall punk kids. The people who might really appreciate them. Can we get them to tour with Paramore or something? Can I convince anyone in NYC to go see them play Union Hall tonight? Who knows.

Fight Like Apes “Something Global”

So yes, Fight Like Apes are fun and goofy, and they indulge in some ironic humor, but what makes them so appealing is how earnest they can be. May Kay may sing some nonsense, but the emotional content of these songs always rings out loud and clear. “Something Global” is especially straight forward: They feel out of step with music culture, but they love it and hate it and love it and hate it. It’s a statement of intent — they want to get people excited and they’re not afraid to be pop. It’s a bit “take us or leave us,” but it’s mostly “you’d be a fool not to love us.”

Buy it from Amazon. The price for the mp3 download is very low!