The Primates rattled a few cages on the LA garage scene in the mid-80s. The untamed foursome swung with fellow revivalists The Morlocks, The Untold Fables and The Gravedigger V. Their crude brand of garage punk caught the attention of Greg Shaw at Voxx Records and he lured them from The Cavern Club with hoppy drinks and the promise of curvy females to shrug with in order to document their primordial utterings. Brett Gurewitz was charged with capturing their primal beats and simple grunts onto 12" circular discs of thin black plastic. Simply known as "We Are The Primates", the album was distributed amongst the sixties crazed youth of California's urban jungles. The garage scene evolved and the primitive urges that were initially evoked by the rumblings in the grooves soon waned. Scenesters began to gyrate to the synthetic sounds that were being created as far away as Britain and The Primates' sole output was cast upon a pile of cultural refuse. "We Are The Primates" was relegated to "one and done" status, left to be discovered by the restless youth of future generations.
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Sourced from an article originally published in Born Outta Time #33 in January, 2024
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