The downfall with this debut album by AKP, the loose filling in the fruit pastel world of music that we chew on contently is that Nike, Coca Cola nor Mars Bars will not pay Alex King's heating bill in his retirement years.. this album does not fit into the envelope on Zane Lowe's desk alongside a cheque marked CASH. If you give gift vouchers out as presents you will not like this album.
by marbled.

You're still here? that's what I like to see!
AKP's The Blast Apex is a digital camera with a full 512mb memory card and not just a MySpace profile photo, it's Alex King's childlike jumping into a puddle, soaking the pedestrians and their Ipod Shuffles, this album is not a 50pence in the jukebox purchase, no one song is a headliner with a bill of support acts you'll develop your barfly skills during. Quite like Dorothy getting to meet the Wizard, this album will take you through a mischevious journey of listening, you can either enjoy the colours in a stuck in the rushhour traffic singalong whilst preening your hair way, or you can consider it's listening like an education in one of the finest rock songwriting and performance ventures you'll find this year. Dentists save up a career's worth of pulled teeth to put under their retirement pillow in hope of such reward as tracks contained here (save yourself a Marathon Man scene and just head over to www.akp.org.uk I urge you for your copy!), the passing your driving test and first imagined grand prix drive of opener Jacknife Heart through to Goodbye, a song of such tranquil beauty it's akin to a gift of a glass of Atlantic water to the bed ridden never left the city smoke guy who gets the chance to smell freedom. With more riffs than cornflakes in your breakfast bowl packed in tracks like Poison Over Gold, Coming Up and Walking On The Sun, you'll be wanting the score book to follow later in the year after frustrated attempts to copy them! It isn't all ivory gas mark 9 on this album though, the ebony beauty of some acoustic guitar muscles in with the timing of Pele. Hollywood may believe themselves to have the best superheroes, but the standout track for me is the ecstacy emotional elating of Diagonal Man, that's the kind of talent no costumed freak can really deliver, this song is your being a passerby as Monroe stood over 'that' airvent! What makes this album more exciting is that while it is quite apparent The Blast Apex has been carefully moulded and kilned by Alex, his production never lets the performance down and his personality inflames the album's passion at every turn, this album is being launched on the live scene by a ferocious temperament of pride by AKP and to bear witness to this and now be able to relive the experience with this album surely raises the bar for Santa Claus to be relevant this year!
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