Artist: Apples in Stereo: mp3 download Genre(s): Indie Other Discography: New Magnetic Wonder Year: 2007 Tracks: 24 Fun Trick Noisemaker Year: 1995 Tracks: 13 Sunny pop stria the Apples in Stereo were one of the ahead lights of the Elephant 6 Recording Company corporate, a pack of like-minded, lo-fi indie groups -- including the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Secret Square -- world Health Organization shared musicians, ideas, and sensibilities. They were light-emitting junction rectifier by singer/songwriter Robert Schneider, a native of the diminutive town of Ruston, LA, besides home to Jeff Mangum (by and by of Neutral Milk Hotel) as well as William Cullen Hart and Bill Doss (world Health Organization formed the Olivia Tremor Control). Throughout high school, the wishful musicians -- all influenced by the likes of the Beatles, the Zombies, Pink Floyd, and Sonic Youth -- exchanged home recordings and played in each other's bands. After college, Schneider and Mangum relocated to Denver, CO, where Schneider stricken up a friendship with fellow Beach Boys fan and bass player Jim McIntyre; after recruitment drummer Hilarie Sidney and guitarist Robert Parfitt, they formed the Apples and issued their self-titled debut EP on the Elephant 6 label. To keep off confusion with other similarly named bands, they officially became the Apples in Stereo for 1995's full-length debut, Sport Trick Noisemaker. In 1996, Schneider produced the Olivia Tremor Control's Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle and later in the year the Apples issued Science Faire, a compendium of singles and rare corporeal. The Apples in Stereo returned in the fall of 1997 with Tone Soul Evolution; shortly after its button, the band sign a distribution apportion with Sire and the album was re-released in January of the next year. The splendid Her Wallpaper Reverie followed in the bounce of 1999, and a year later the band returned with the equally rattling The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone. The mathematical group likewise contributed a song to 2000's Heroes & Villains: Music Inspired by the Powerpuff Girls, and in 2001 they released the Let's Go! EP, which featured the track from Heroes & Villains on with a cover of the Beach Boys classic of the same name. In fall 2002, Schneider and the Apples in Stereo issued their well-nigh challenging cause to date, Velocity of Sound. Soon later on the band went on hiatus with members focussing on other projects (Schneider with Marbles and Ulysses, Sidney with the High Water Marks). In 2006 they reconvened to record New Magnetic Wonder for worker Elijah Wood's new label, Simian (in conjunction with Yep Roc). Before the record strike the shelves, the band's lineup suffered a blow with the going of Sidney in late 2006. Her replacement, the Deathray Davies frontman John Dufilho, was added to a band that apart from Schneider too included ex-Olivia Tremor Control fellow member Bill Doss on keyboards, guitar player John Hill, and bassist Eric Allen. The band was minded a boost by the appearance of Schneider, telling "Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen" -- his ode to the good looks of Stephen Colbert-- on the notorious "Jet Screen Challenge" episode of The Colbert Report. |
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
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