Travellers in Space and Time
The Apples In Stereo
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| Total: 16 Songs |
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The Apples in Stereo leader Robert Schneider has always had a way with a pop hook but with 2010’s Travellers in Space and Time, he’s apparently found an entire closet filled with electronics dating back to the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Travellers plays like a power-pop band gone disco. There are cheesy synths, primitive vocoders, cotton-candy melodies, Smurf-like backing harmonies. All that’s missing is the disco ball to send the multicolored hues onto the dancefloor. “Dream About the Future” trips up like something from a roller-disco. “Hey Elevator” sounds like it took music lessons from the Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me.” “Strange Solar System” sounds like the clustered harmonies of Queen cut up for the digital age. “Dance Floor” is made for exactly that as it pumps up the techno rhythms. “No One In the World” sounds like Andrew Gold (“Lonely Boy”) crossed with New Order. Schneider’s clearly having fun here, turning pop music into mechanical consumption for the masses.
Customer Reviews
any other review is irrelevant
I could go around waxing poetically about how the Apple's new album is a postmodern dancemorphic synthpop masterpiece and somehow changed my life by helping me realize the absurdity of my own existence, but it would serve no other purpose than to make me sound deeper than I really am.
I am a tin can filled with rain water, and this album is great.
-j
Settling In Their Sea Change
The Apples settle into a great blend of futuristic pop that plays nicely into their psych-pop tendencies. Their new album sounds like ELO meets Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard, A True Star" album with the former's vocoder-laden pop structures and hooks coupled with plenty of bouncy synth and guitar experimentation a-la "A Wizard, A True Star." It actually seems like a logical style to fit themselves into as they have a penchent for such pop whimsy. I really liked it more than the rest of their recent albums. I gave it four stars but I'd probably have to say more like four and a half.
It's great...
I like this cd a lot, it's not their best, but that doesn't mean it isn't great. They set the bar pretty high with "Electronic Projects for Musicians," let's face it, that cd is almost impossible to follow up. This cd is a noble effort, especially "Dance Floor."
Biography
Formed: 1993 in Denver, CO
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By The Apples In Stereo
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Energy | New Magnetic Wonder | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Same Old Drag | New Magnetic Wonder | 3:21 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Can You Feel It? | New Magnetic Wonder | 4:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sun Is Out | New Magnetic Wonder | 2:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dance Floor | Travellers in Space and Time | 4:02 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Mood | Holiday Mood - Single | 2:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Stephen, Stephen | Stephen, Stephen - Single | 1:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobody But You | Travellers in Space and Time | 4:20 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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7 Stars | New Magnetic Wonder | 3:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Shine (In Your Mind) | Electronic Projects for Musicians | 3:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Psychedelic, Indie Rock, Adult Alternative, Pop, Pop/Rock
- Released: Apr 20, 2010
- ℗ 2010 Yep Roc Records
