Apteka debut "Striking Violet" from upcoming LP Gargoyle Days on Dumbing of America.
Their songs build in a crescendo of sweat and beauty, creating epic landscapes that have left me with permanent goosebumps...
Embracing the coming darkness of a Chicago winter, Apteka's debut LP, Gargoyle Days
is awash in captivating reverb, swirling melodies and soaring,
anthemic refrains and the release is celebrated with a special, Chicago
Halloween show.
with Sybris, The Bingers, Touched by Ghoul
Watch the release video for Gargoyle Days to hear the title track from the new LP.
For more music, check out this video featuring Apteka scoring Shepard Fairey and Obey and give a listen to the release named one of the Top 2010 albums from Chicago Indies by the Chicago Tribune, the Traitors 7".
Press praise for Apteka
With
a heady mix of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the epiphanal rush of
shoegaze, with the intensity of Jane’s Addiction they’re truly the
great band that’s flown under your radar too long.
The Dumbing of America
An increasingly commanding quartet that embraces the power of guitar drone, tribal drumming and the deep, shoegaze-era swoon.
Chicago Tribune, Traitors 7” Top 2010 albums from Chicago Indies
If
snowstorms shed sparks or cicadas caught fire. If you longed so much
for something that you could never sleep again. Or if all your friends
started playing electric guitars at once.
Said the Gramophone
With
its chiming guitar, churning rhythms, expansive atmospherics, and
keening, melodic vocals, the song presses the same buttons as classic
Ride. I expect good things from this band, and soon.
Chicago Reader
This
scrappy Chicago rock band takes the DIY-values of Pavement, the
wide-eyed excitability of Dinosaur Jr. and the frantic, flourished
drumming of Keith Moon, tosses it all into a blended, and slathers it
with a thick coating of shoegazer fuzz that would make My Bloody
Valentine proud…a sonic maelstrom of energy blasting through your
speakers, all teetering guitar and an ambiance that makes it sound as
if it was recorded during the middle of a huge blizzard.
The Brown Noise
Apteka
weaves a curious star bound tapestry that falls between the generic
staples of shoe gaze, tear arsing shimmer toned power pop and fringe
flicking shade adorned lysergic psyche groove, the thumping ‘cicada
song’ sound like a wired and antagonised early career Ride
re-sculpturing discarded Barrett Floyd / 13th Floor Elevators motifs
while ‘the sheet’ it seems is currently streets ahead on the listening
count though sadly the blighter refused to play for us - gremlins in
the machinery I gather.
Losing Today
Take the breathiness of Stoned And Dethroned
era Jesus and Mary Chain and English shoegazer harmonies, along with
an album-consistent palpitating beat. Best of all is the way the whole
track leads somewhere - soft beginnings to strongly strummed reverb
drenched guitars, to fierce and sheathing keys, to - finally - an
amalgamation of all the above. This song, in particular, is four
minutes of satisfaction.
Drone Magazine on “If You Were Here”
About Apteka
Apteka
is Adam Lukas, Dino Balocchi, Jesse Hozeny, and Dave Narey. We are
from Chicago. We play rock music. We like large kick drums, tube
amplification, and face melting.
Gargoyle Days
gargoyle days
striking violet
in clouds
where days go
this time
voices
gravesend
monterey
we know time
striking violet
in clouds
where days go
this time
voices
gravesend
monterey
we know time
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