Over the past few months, Liverpool-based math-rock trio Alpha Male Tea Party have been busy teasing their newest album, Reptilian Brain, which comes a painstaking five years after their last LP, Infinity Stare. The album comes at a time when proggy, dancy math-rock is really making a comeback in the UK & Ireland, with bands such as Maybeshewill, Adebisi Shank, And So I Watch You From Afar and Orchards making waves – not to mention the incredible lineups always present at the annual ArcTanGent festival. Therefore, as a staple band in the math-rock and post-rock scenes in the UK, it comes as no surprise that Alpha Male Tea Party’s newly released album was highly anticipated, and for good reason.
Immediately, the listener can tell that they’re holding nothing back with the explosive opener, Hostess Imperial. With a 6/4 measure and guitarist Tom Peters yelling “captain, oh my captain, this ship seems to be sinking” before springing into the main verse of the song, you might well feel a nosebleed coming on, generated by nothing more than the viscerality of the song…
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