{"id":10043,"date":"2014-02-27T06:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdapextheory_bushman\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:55","slug":"cdapextheory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdapextheory\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Apex Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nApex Theory
\n“5 song EP”
\n(Dreamworks)<\/h4>\n

I should hate this. \u00a0Their image is laughable–I caught the single on MTV2 and switched it off when I saw the singers multi-colored kung fu Tai Chi gear that he changed for every other camera shot. \u00a0Even the title of the single is stupid–“Shhh… (hope diggy)”? \u00a0What the fuck is that? \u00a0But then my ears caught the song when I wasn’t paying attention, and it has a certain merit. \u00a0And it mostly comes from the guy I just slammed. \u00a0Rap flows on the tricky tip, stumbling with intention and hesitation to accentuate the directions of the words. \u00a0It’s this reluctance to let it all drop at once, and just hit you with spasms and jerks of lyrical surge, that sets this apart from the drivel it seems so intent on becoming. \u00a0The Incubus-appreciating set might dig this. \u00a0The vocalist has a mellow lilt in his voice like Incubus’ Brandon Boyd with the ability to move his range around a bit. \u00a0In “Swing This,” we see a snottier attempt at a punkier rant, mixed with a snappy finger jazzy breakdown with playful bass interludes, \u00a0that shows Apex Theory attempting a more raw sound. \u00a0Songs have a certain sense of sly movement, swaying and dropping (when they aren’t making you yawn). \u00a0Out of 5 songs, 3 were worth tracking. \u00a0The closing track “Trust Ease” is an exercise in patience as one idea of a guitar progression is backed by some oh-so-personal lyrics (thanks for sharing) that does nothing forever, then does it some more, but louder. \u00a0There’s a certain amount of knee-jerk reaction to hate anything coming out with a rap-inflected metal tip, but I don’t completely hate this. \u00a0Hate their image, but if you knew me, heh, health, fashion, MY two main concerns, so I should shut up about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apex Theory “5 song EP” (Dreamworks) I should hate this. \u00a0Their image is laughable–I caught the single on MTV2 and switched it off when I saw the singers multi-colored kung fu Tai Chi gear that he changed for every other camera shot. \u00a0Even the title of the single is stupid–“Shhh… (hope diggy)”? \u00a0What the fuck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[487,2224,3600],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}