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Simians Of Swing: Simians Of Swing

by Bruce Lindsay
March 24, 2016

Sometimes the best legends are the ones you create about yourself. The Simians of Swing, whose debut release this is, understand. As this legend has it, the London-based band is co-led by an ex-member of the Russian mafia--skilled in the martial arts--and a man who spends his days playing chess on his own while meditating on the role of bass frequencies in global geopolitics. Their songs tell tales of heroes and villains--mostly villains and mostly, one assumes, old colleagues from ...