well, guess what i just found out? all of us who have been salivating for jeff mangum, the genius behind neutral milk hotel, to do something…anything…can take a drooling break this february. why february, you ask? because that’s when denver-based indie-pop darlings apples in stereo are releasing their new album new magnetic sound, featuring none other than jeff on “drums, cow object (?), backing vocals, handclaps.”
robert schneider, the apples in stereo singer, was a founding member of the elephant 6 collective, which i will always love for giving the world some pretty amazing bands like beulah (please get back together…i’ll do anything!), the gerbils and the essex green. this upcoming album, however, will come out on the brand new simian records (owned by hipster hobbit elijah wood, oddly enough). not sure of the reasons behind this but the record itself promises to be interesting…and this is despite the fact that it was just announced that drummer hilarie sidney is amicably leaving the band - since robert schneider produced nmh’s chillingly brilliant in the aeroplane over the sea i tend to trust anything and everything he touches but maybe that’s just me.
nothing has been been released (read:leaked) from it yet but some great old apples in stereo songs are on their myspace…maybe they will tide us over until we can check out this new double album early next year.Â
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man, i used to LOVE apples in stereo. i caught a live show of theirs a few years back and my god, it was awful. maybe it was just a bad night, but i’ve blocked it out and only listen to their records safely recorded in the studio at this point.
Please tell me that “cow object” is a cowbell and not something else…
Hey, Joiezabel. I drunk-called you this weekend and you haven’t even called back to make fun of me yet! Whipped any strangers with a slim-jim lately?
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Comment by Commissar Startastic — September 26, 2006 @ 8:30 pm
I have never understood the allure of Apples in Stereo. Once a few years ago, I helped move a Donkey Kong machine into the living room of their guitar player, and he was a real nice guy and all, but still. Jeff Magum is fantastic though.