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2002. Neutral Milk Hotel have disbanded for what seems like an era, Olivia Tremor Control have shared their same fate. Beulah are taking their last breaths, Elf Power release a mediocre album and one of covers. The Elephant Six Recording Company is about to close. It's precisely in this rather dark moment for the dear elephants that the mind behind Apples in Stereo (a band that until that moment had produced, after an initial little masterpiece, a series of albums that were nice but not special and went unnoticed), Robert Schneider, comes out with a great album, which will likely prove to be the pinnacle of his career along with the aforementioned debut.
"Velocity Of Sound" is a mature album, which gathers all the solutions invented by the band previously, treasures them, and reworks them. The sugary and acoustic guitars of the beginnings are mostly set aside, to make room for a more distorted, compact sound (bringing to mind the guitars of Hardcore Punk), without forgetting melody, which is always very present. Remarkable are the vocal parts entrusted to drummer Hilarie Sydney, although Schneider's almost childlike voice reaches its greatest splendor.
An energetic album, perhaps short in length, but with great impact.
Our apples will then form an alliance with Elijah Wood, release a decent "New Magnetic Wonder" in 2007, then dear Hilarie will leave the group, which will come out with the embarrassing "Travellers In Space And Time" (2010). The end (I hope).
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