Was your ear to the ground in 2011? If so, you heard APACHE DROPOUT - the lysergic boogie trio from Southern Indiana. Their self-titled vinyl LP was named the best "re-scoring of the garage-rock aesthetic in the 21st century" by Mojo and repressed a couple times due to demand. Now, that platter is finally available in an expanded CD version. With mostly guitar/bass/drums APACHE DROPOUT channel soul melodies, primitive rock thump and blasted solos that are soaked in the dimethyl-trip of teenage visions (see songs "Sam Phillips Rising" and "God Bless You Johan Kugelberg" for that) and a few whifs of Tuli Kupferberg. Sonny Alexander is the enigmatic howler/guitarist whose swagger and melted riffs lead the way. Recorded by the band at their own Magnetic South studio on all analogue equipment and mixed down to mono, they've used the studio-as-instrument to push these 11 songs into highly textured nuggets of punk art that follow in the wave of The 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, and Patti Smith Group. A horn section, synth, backup singers and guest producers help round this album into a stoned cold classic of the American rock'n'roll underground. Even in 2012, you're not going to hear anything else like this. Exclusive to this CD version is a nine song live set by the band, featuring an unreleased song.