 | The Apples In Stereo |
The Apples In Stereo have been rocking the indie scene for a long time at this point, and earlier this year they dropped their latest release, Travellers In Space & Time. The Apples have brought some solid twee-pop songs that go between disco-indie-pop and more traditional 70s style ballads. The album is executed very well, has a ton of songs (15 songs total) and is just a fun, toss it on record with no pretenses or messages really. This is the perfected brand of indie-pop that The Apples have got for everyone with this release. While they have put it together perfectly and hit their mark, the album still remains a mostly loose collection of pop-oriented songs that are not particularly memorable or attention-grabbing beyond the first time that you hear them. There are a few moments of really solid songs here, but for the most part this is a mind-shut-down kind of record that is fuzzy and fun while you blast through it, but won’t really go with you when it’s over.
The first half of the album is filled with spacey disco pop jams that are light and fun, are fairly short quick and nice little bursts of pop goodness. Songs like “Dream About The Future”, “Hey Elevator” and “Dance Floor” are perfect examples, good, lighthearted beats and melodies flying by in an instant, moderately danceable and grooveable. “Dignified Dignitary” is probably the most straight ahead rock song on the album, but still twee with some ooh oohs thrown in there. The last half of the album brings some more 70s style ballads together with songs like “Told You Once”, “It’s All Right” and “Nobody But You”. The last half ends up being more interesting musically than the first, as the first largely has pretty basic disco pop beats in and out, and there is a little more variety on the second half.
The album is well done, and is very catchy and easy to bob your head to. It is very pop friendly and generally there is a good rhythm and good times vibe to most of what is going on here. While everything is perfectly serviceable and is all well executed, nothing here stands out as something remarkable or something new and it mainly works on a level as a straight, fun disco pop record. It is a good backrground music CD for cruising around this summer I would think, with head-bobbable tracks galore, but it doesn’t make any bold statements, it doesn’t really try to be anything more than fun space disco pop. In that way, it completely succeeds, but it also prevents it from really being something bigger as well.
The Apples In Stereo – Dream About The Future – From Travellers In Space & Time (CD, Vinyl, MP3, iTunes)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – From Travellers In Space & Time (CD, Vinyl, MP3, iTunes)
