Very Ape never comes off as sanctimonious. It just sounds like it's seen some miles, and that shows not only in the composition and musicianship-- which is impeccable -- but also in its influences, which date back to the early '70s heavy-metal hothouse.
It steals the opening from the Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm" and turns the riff into a two-minute instrumental called "Disconnection Syndrome" (how's that for pillaging the archives?). "A Cool Kind of Misery" competes on the same stoner-rock terms as decidedly unrehabbed American counterparts Nebula, which proves that, even without the pipe, Very Ape is smoking.
