The Apples in Stereo - Velocity of Sound
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Artist: The Apples in StereoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Music Label: Spin Art
Soundtracks:
- Please
- Rainfall
- That's Something I do
- Do You Understand?
- Where We Meet
- Yore Days
- Better Days
- I Want
- Mystery
- Baroque
- North America (Bonus Track)
- She's Telling Lies (Bryce's Mix)
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Free Music Review: The sound of fluff
Hit: 3 Stars
"Velocity of Sound" might be the Apples' most featherlight production to date, so it's a bit of a surprise that this one owes the least to the bouncy and acidic 60s sound they've aped so often and so well. "That's Something I Do" is actually more mid-90s mall punk than 60s psychedelic pop; the vocalizing on `Do You Understand?" made me think of They Might Be Giants; "I Want" closes on the same riff as the Strokes' "Take It or Leave It." Even "She's Telling Lies," which has an obvious Brian Wilson/Beach Boys hook to it, sounds more of the early 90s surf brigade than the ones that used to sing of hotrods and malt shop girls.
It's not the riffs and volume that makes it so fluffy (they've always been melodic, and the guitars are tuned for fuzzy feedback) but the lack of memorable moments. There really aren't any bad songs on here, but this is more Weezer-lite than Beatles (though still better than what Weezer has become now). As it stands, "Velocity" will turn very few heads, but there's so little to honestly complain about, that it becomes one of the great bottom stack records of all time (bottom stack record: the album you always have out and ready to play, but never anything more than a backup at the bottom of the stack).
Best cuts: "Better Days," "Rainfall," "Please," "I Want," "Baroque," "That's Something I Do," "She's Telling Lies"
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