This doesn't work. Okay, the drumming is way, way better than on Hardworlder, but Slough Feg sounds just... tired. Half-assed. No real songs, and not much effort was done to try and make them. What you get, instead, are a couple of lines of vocals — and you've heard them before, probably on other Slough Feg albums — and they are more irritating than inspired.

You get long instrumental sections filling the space until the endings of the songs. And you've heard those before too: old-school progressive rock and some galloping rhythms. So, instead of feeling like you were introduced into something, or like you are listening to a beginning, middle or an ending of a song, most often you just find yourself listening to hard rock solos and wondering why they came or why the song doesn't continue after that.

As a curiosity, one song actually stops before turning into a long medley section, but most bands wouldn't call that a song. All in all, there are maybe five minutes of actual, coherent music on Ape Uprising!... and that's out of barely 38 minutes of this CD.

(The Lord Weird) Slough Feg has been know to do much, much better, but this is already the second tired, dull album in a row. Why don't they take a break until they actually have something to say again? (4/10)