The energy carousing through Apteka\u2019s music is contagious; this band has the fiery soul of some of the early post-hardcore acts. This band doesn\u2019t make deliberate attempts to sound coercively ferocious. This is a sophisticated outfit that is loud, noisy, and heartfelt, but with never a bone so testy that would make it sound even remotely brackish. <\/p>\n
The punkish rage of Apteka is often tempered with dreamy guitar layers that border on shoegazer, but they are always careful \u2013 though not self-consciously so \u2013 not to cross the line. But this doesn\u2019t deter the group from taking total fearless plunges into the romantic, and creating haunting songs like \u201cEdie Sees\u201d and \u201cIf You Were Here.\u201d However, whenever a band makes \u2013 like Apteka does here \u2013 invoking guitar-music, there is always an element of some lush dreaminess that follows the music like a shadow, the manifestations of which on a track like \u201cWhere You Sleep\u201d is psychedelic, and on something like \u201cCicada Song,\u201d is arousing and anthemic. <\/p>\n
Apteka plays its layered guitar sounds like a purist rock band rather than a bunch of kids wanting to make beautiful, astral indie music. On cuts like \u201cIndigenous\u201d and \u201cThe Sheet\u201d \u2013 the least pugnacious of the bunch, on which the band is not trying to be reflective \u2013 beneath the beauty of the misty music, one can feel the band playing the with ferocious intensity. <\/p>\n
The noise made by Apteka is clean for most of the times, and on occasions, like on \u201cBlackout Hearts,\u201d takes on a cellophane glam sound. In this instance, however, the music is not grand; there is more of Sonic Youth than Silversun Pickups in this track. On \u201cShe Is Riots,\u201d the same sound gets haughtier and sleazier, with guitar attacks that are way manlier and very \u201860s \u201crock n\u2019 roll.\u201d <\/p>\n
Tour EP<\/i> is a passionate and soulful rock gem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8669],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42223","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-apteka","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42223"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42223"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}