The Apples In Stereo
Her Wallpaper Reverie
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MOG Editorial Review
They've always done a stellar job of evoking the vibrant pop of the '60s, but Athens act the Apples in Stereo refreshingly looked towards the psychedelic side of the same era to rejuvenate their sound on 1999's Her Wallpaper Reverie. Tied together by an eight part series of interludes, the album found the band getting darker despite keeping their pop hooks in tact, with tracks like "Strawberryfire" pushing them into serious psych-jam territory. The interludes, meanwhile, showed that they weren't afraid to throw off unadventurous listeners, shaking off the band's permanently happy reputation while sharpening both their artistic vision and hooks.
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AMG Review of Her Wallpaper Reverie
Jason Ankeny
All Music GuideHer Wallpaper Reverie is the Apples in Stereo's finest effort to date -- the band's most overtly psychedelic record, it's also their most experimental, achieving a near-perfect balance between candy-colored popcraft and musique concrète-influenced interludes. In a sense, the disc is a response to the grand ambitions of fellow Elephant 6-ers Olivia Tremor Control and their likeminded Black Foliage album, but the Apples' integration of Beatlesque melodies and experimental noises is much more seamless; not only are Her Wallpaper Reverie's songs the best Robert Schneider's yet written, but they're produced with a new richness of detail -- from the wonderfully Lennon-esque "Strawberryfire" to the Kinks-ish "Ruby," the music positively shimmers.








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