Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
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Artist: Apples in StereoBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Music Label: Simian Records
Soundtracks:
- Can You Feel It?
- Skyway
- Mellotron 1
- Energy
- Same Old Drag
- Joanie Don't U Worry
- Sunndal Song
- Droplet
- Play Tough
- Sun Is Out
- Non-Pythagorean Composition 1
- Hello Lola
- 7 Stars
- Mellotron 2
- Sunday Sounds
- Open Eyes
- Crimson
- Pre-Crimson
- Vocoder Ba Ba
- Radiation
- Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2
- Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4
- My Pretend
- Non-Pythagorean Composition 3
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Free Music Review: The world is made of energy
Hit: 5 Stars
The Apples in Stereo have been charming listeners for years with their psychedelic rock music. They're the most accessible of all the Elephant 6 bands, and one of the more talented ones.
But with "New Magnetic Wonder," this lovable band creates their best album yet -- tight pop melodies that play on their strengths, colourful music, and a sound that's just a little bit warped. It sprawls over two discs, yet never feels like they're overstuffing it.
It opens with a chiming little melody... and a muffled voice speaking through a vocorder, like a pop Darth Vader. Then the nimble guitar and drums kick in, blossoming into a fun, energetic pop tune. "Turn up your STER-E-O!"
That energy carries over into the songs that follow -- solid rockers ("you follow the skyway... you follow the streets and the cars/and the shadows and the stars!"), shimmering psychpop, bouncy rock'n'roll songs, sunny guitar pop, and lo-fi ramblers.
Then the Apples segue back into an even more polished second volume -- the shimmering "7 Stars," stompy rockers, blippy little music boxes, and effervescent pop melodies. It peaks with the four-part "Beautiful Machine," which soars up to the heavens like the sound of a thunderstorm being blown away.
This album is a bit different from other Apples in Stereo albums, with a more streamlined sound. Rob Schneider and Co. pepper the actual songs with little blippy, quirky interludes, reminiscent of artier projects. And they dabble in a more epic, expansive feeling than they had before, but fortunately that doesn't require the sacrifice of the retro-sixties vibe.
Most of the songs center on fast-driving guitar and drums, which make some wonderfully catchy melodies. But they're also draped in fuzz bass, piano moments, and waves of shimmering mellotron, shimmering distorted voice, quirky wavery electronica, and dozens of other instruments. I think I hear church bells somewhere in there.
Legendary Neutral Milk Hotelier Jeff Mangum even enters the album, to provide handclaps, drums, and something called a "cow object." I don't know what that is, to be honest.
Frontman Robert Schneider -- after a stint in the Marbles -- returns with his boyish vocals, crooning over the complex music about skyways, celestial objects, the idealism of friendship, and "Seven stars in the sky, in the sky/you're feeling sociable/silver stars in your eyes, in your eyes/you feel emotional... and you don't even know my name/and I know every constellation..."
"New Magnetic Wonder" takes this band onto a whole new musical level, and one that it will be hard for them to top. Absolutely stunning, and a great way to enter the new (musical) year.
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