Dinked Edition #51 – Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – Ballet Of Apes //Castle Face Records// (Released *26th June)

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£24.99 – Dinked Edition #51

+ Exclusive, magenta coloured vinyl.
+ Limited pressing of just 400 copies.
+ Exclusive folded 12 x 24” poster (folded with LP).
+ Signed inner sleeve.
+ Numbered outer sleeve.

Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS, know she can belt out a tune as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. Ballet of Apes tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers – and the results are spellbinding.

At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles – white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. This is thrillingly potent stuff.

1. Is The Time for New Incarnations
2. The Fool
3. Carletta’s In Hats Again
4. When My Day of the Crone Comes
5. Ballet of Apes
6. Heartbreak Jazz
7. Trixxx