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Like Long Hair [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Intavolatura Di Liuto & Chitarrone 1623 & 1639
Music: Our Time Is Coming [Import]
Magik 5: Heaven Beyond [Import]
L' Embleme de la Jeunesse [Import]
Live in Japan [Box set] [Gold CD] [Import] [Live]
In Your Honor [Content/Copy-Protected CD]
Jazz Music: 1000 Knives [Import] [Limited Edition]
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Apples in Stereo's leader, Robert Schneider, never seems to run out of ways to describe the world as a psychedelic place. As the producer for Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel (all members of the elusive neotrippy Elephant 6 collective) and the singer-songwriter for Apples in Stereo, Schneider inhabits a world where the lysergic insights of Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, and Roky Erickson never die. A childlike enthusiasm infuses tunes such as "The Rainbow" and "Look Away," in which a healthy dollop of Beatlesesque hooks, bright guitars, circus horns, and pop harmonies circa 1966-67 are a sharp contrast from the modern world of endless trip-hop drum loops and synthetic soul. Occasionally another decade slips through. "What Happened Then" has shades of T. Rex glam rock underneath its dreamy surface. But mostly it's as if someone locked this quintet in a room back in the late '60s and forever deprived them of all cultural stimuli. A worthwhile trip in the time tunnel. --Rob O'Connor