Apollo Sunshine - Shall Noise Upon
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Artist: Apollo SunshineEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Music Label: Headless Heroes
Soundtracks:
- Breeze
- Singing to the Earth (To Thank Her for You)
- 666: The Coming of the New World Government
- Brotherhood of Death
- Happiness
- We Are Born When We Die
- The Funky Chamberlain (Who Begot Who)
- Money
- The Mermaid Angeline
- Green Green Lawns of Outer Space
- Honestly
- Fog and Shadow
- Light of the World
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Free Music Review: The way I long to touch you
Hit: 5 Stars
The Apollo Sunshine have always dabbled in Elephant 6-style psychedelica and sparkling pop melodies, but they've outdone themselves with "Shall Noise Upon."
In particular, their third full-length album is a concept album about spirituality's effect, so they have plenty of material to build on. But they wrap it in a canvas of outrageously loopy sound -- we've got a mishmash of jazz, soul, psychedelic pop and pastoral folk, and it's all splattered with an experimental edge that practically tears off the ear.
"The surface of streams/the fingers of trees/the sweet harmonies/in the breeze...." Sam Cohen sings over a pendulous melody of guitar, rippling harp and trickling piano. As a warmup, he continues singing the praises of nature, and describing it as being "the way I long to touch you."
It's followed by the bouncy acoustic folk of "Singing To The Earth (To Thank Her For You)," the blistering psychedelica of "666: The Coming Of The New World Government," and an all-too brief titular interlude which is basically blips, creaks, and eruptions of electric guitar that sounds like it's trying to possess you. Think a hard-rock reincarnation of the Olivia Tremor Control.
From there they drift through songs in that vein -- delicate folk-pop melodies, countryish ballads, bouncy psychpop, quirky acid-jazzy songs, and a Mexican flavoured pop tune. But there are also songs that go way, way over to the weird side -- warbling strings filled with hymnlike vocals, spacey psychedelic Hawaiian folk.
And there's the eerie "Light Of The World" finale. It's all thunder, strings and dawnlike buildup... followed by silence... and finally finishing with a weird lo-fi brainwashing message. Don't know what that's all about.
"Shall Noise Upon" was apparently recorded in a "house inhabited by spirits" in the Catskills mountains, and there are moments where you can believe that a few of those spirits wangled into a microphone. Then again, there are moments that suggest it was recorded in a beach-house after a sunset party, where somebody was impaled in an electric guitar. Who knows?
Either way, the Apollo Sunshine manages to have it both ways in this album -- they continue to deliver ripe psychedelic pop, but also polish their wild weird experimental eruptions. Lots of acoustic and electric guitars, violin, banjo, brassy trumpets, piano and harp, but also trickling keyboard, explosions of steel guitar, bells and a delicate flute. And they're able to twist normal instrumentation into strange unpredictable shapes, be it an exquisite swell of strings or a hallucinatory burping eruption of screeching guitar.
Sam Cohen rides these songs out to the end, usually sounding like a long-lost Beatle, but channelling Lou Reed occasionally. And he's all too happy to wallow in the lyrics of pastoral love odes and daydreams of a money-free world ("I know I would lose my job/and I would find the time/to do all those things/I've always wanted to do but never had the money..."). At best it's thought-provoking, at worst vaguely incomprehensible and a bit cliched.
"Shall Noise Upon" polishes everything about the Apollo Sunshine, and takes their wild experimental psychedelica and endearing folkpop further into the stratosphere. Change is coming!
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