If you check out The Apache’s Facebook page, don’t let them fool you. Behind the decidedly haunting imagery they’ve crafted for themselves ahead of their Oct. 31 album release, lies a harmless band, with music more whimsical and peaceful than an all-out assault on your ears. The band’s second single Yosarian Lives or Peter Weir (1944) opens up with a pleasing jazz-funk guitar lick, a sound that elicits feelings of summer memories long past, and is hard not to tap your feet and hands along to. The only thing the track suffers from is a lack of production. But that might just be the whole point. A good song doesn’t need to hide behind glossy production, but it would be great to have all the instrumentation and vocals louder in the mix. Still, this is a good track and is always a pleasant surprise when it comes up on shuffle on your iTunes. Download it for free at www.tinyurl.com/Uniter-Apache.

Published in Volume 65, Number 7 of The Uniter (October 14, 2010)