Draped Apes is a new art-garage-rock group out of Nashville. Led by multi-instrumentalist Timoscles, the group revolves around a steady core of longtime collaborators, which expands and contracts according to each song’s needs.
This wide-ranging effort celebrates the futility of life. Inherently contrasting and blending polish and grime in equal measure, their songs are built on primal emotions like anger and desire. The result has the vulnerability of a singer/songwriter but the bravado of rock and roll.
On their second single, the fuzzed-out “Making It (Up),” Draped Apes solidify a singularity that is as all-encompassing as it is simplistic. There is an ethereal quality to the band’s latest that gives the single a whimsical, immersive atmosphere, almost as if the band is encouraging the listener to step outside their comfort zone, as that is the only way Draped Apes landed on this sonic terrain. “Making It (Up)” brings the warmth of lo-fi and submerges psychedelic guitars in its palpable textures, creating a hilly yet lush landscape. This dense forest of breezy guitars and spacious ambiance is navigated with surgical precision by soaring vocals that bleed into blissful instrumental moments, giving “Making It (Up)” the feeling of washing over you in waves. Draped Apes seems primed to be the next great Nashville hope, and their new single introduces the Timoscles-led outfit as fearless innovators hellbent on creating something they can call their own.
“Crafting this song was like a slow-motion dream. The main riff was the first thing I ever wrote on electric guitar, somewhere around the age of 11. Various attempts were made over the years to flesh a song around it, and what you hear now is the result of three separate fragments coming together,” explains Timoscles. “Reflecting the modern attention span and all that. We recorded guitar, drums, and some synth live at a makeshift studio we set up in a cabin in the woods. I finished overdubs here in Nashville, bandmates and others in the Draped Apes universe looking over my shoulder as we mixed and produced the track. Now this long-lost dream is a reality, condensed in all of 2 minutes. Thanks for listening.”
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Love the sound!