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New Magnetic Wonder
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Studio album by The Apples in Stereo
Released February 7, 2007
Recorded Trout Studios, Brooklyn, New York;
Lexington, New York;
Denver, Colorado;
Benton, Kentucky
Genre Indie Pop
Length 52:24
Label Simian Records,
Elephant 6,
Yep Roc Records
Producer(s) Bryce Goggin
The Apples in Stereo chronology
Velocity of Sound
(2002) 		New Magnetic Wonder
(2007)


New Magnetic Wonder is the sixth studio album from The Apples in Stereo. The album was produced by Robert Schneider with additional production and mixing by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Evan Dando, Sean Lennon) and was recorded in three separate states (New York, Colorado and Kentucky). The album is scheduled for release on February 7, 2007 via a co-venture between the actor Elijah Wood's Simian Records, Yep Roc Records and Elephant 6.

In an interview, Robert Schneider has described New Magnetic Wonder as an album with sensibilites between the Apples in Stereo albums Fun Trick Noisemaker and The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone, as well as a heavy influence from 1970s bands such as Electric Light Orchestra.

The album leaked onto the internet during early October 2006.

Contents

[edit] Background

[edit] Tour

In early 2005, Schneider's performed "Skyway" during his Marbles tour. Since, the band has performed new songs such as "Open Eyes", "Play Tough", "Can You Feel It?" and "Energy" while on the New Magnetic Wonder 2006 pre-release tour.

Initially, the tour lineup featured lead singer and guitarist Robert Schneider, bassist Eric Allen, guitarist John Hill and drummer Hilarie Sidney as well as the addition of Elephant 6 co-founder Bill Doss on keyboards. On August 12, 2006, during Athens Popfest, it was announced that longtime drummer Hilarie Sidney was leaving the band. On October 30, 2006, John Dufilho was announced as the band's new drummer. John Ferguson also joined the tour lineup to perform additional keyboards and vocals.

National and regional tour dates to promote the album are to be announced.

[edit] New label

New Magnetic Wonder will mark the first Apples in Stereo LP not to be released through SpinART Records, completing a ten-year deal with the label.

It was announced on September 19, 2006 that The Apples in Stereo have been signed to Simian Records, a new record label formed by Elijah Wood. Wood, a dedicated Apples fan, met Robert Schneider at SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas during 2003. New Magnetic Wonder will be the first release on the newly-formed label, co-released, marketed and distributed through Yep Roc Records, Elephant 6 and Redeye Distribution.

[edit] "Non-Pythagorean Scale"

New Magnetic Wonder touts Schneider's invention of a new musical scale: the "Non-Pythagorean Scale". The CD will be enhanced, featuring digital files for MIDI usage and Schneider's extensive descriptions of the Non-Pythagorean scale.

[edit] Tracklisting

New Magnetic Wonder consists of 14 songs and 12 musical segues ("link tracks").

All tracks written by Robert Schneider except where noted.

[edit] Side One

  1. "Can You Feel It?" – 4:10
  2. "Skyway" – 2:40
  3. "Mellotron 1" – 0:33
  4. "Energy" – 3:30
  5. "Same Old Drag" – 3:21
  6. "Joanie Don't U Worry" – 0:46
  7. "Sunndal Song" – 3:31 (H. Sidney)
  8. "Droplet" – 0:13
  9. "Play Tough" – 3:27
  10. "Sun is Out" – 2:29
  11. "Non-Pythagorean Composition 1" – 0:27

[edit] Side Two

  1. "Hello Lola" – 0:15
  2. "7 Stars" – 3:46
  3. "Mellotron 2" – 0:41
  4. "Sunday Sounds" – 2:59 (H. Sidney)
  5. "Open Eyes" – 5:12
  6. "Crimson" – 0:18
  7. "Pre-Crimson" – 1:24
  8. "Vocoder Ba Ba" – 0:14
  9. "Radiation" – 3:14
  10. "Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2" – 2:36
  11. "Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4" – 4:58
  12. "My Pretend" – 0:42
  13. "Non-Pythagorean Composition 3" – 0:48

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Apples in Stereo

[edit] Other performers

  • Anonymous studio musicians - Mellotron tape banks.
  • Per Ole Bratset - lead guitar, sound effects.
  • Bill Doss - backing vocals, vocal arrangement, Piano Fun, acoustic guitar, handclaps.
  • John Ferguson - backing vocals.
  • John Fernandes - bass clarinet, violins.
  • Pete Fitzpatrick - euphonium.
  • Bryce Goggin - electronic effects.
  • Matthew Goodman - backing vocals.
  • Will Cullen Hart - drums, backing vocals, electronic effects, handclaps, backwards poetry, plastic whistle.
  • Otto Helmuth - mandolin, backing vocals, handclaps.
  • Jeff Holland - lap steel, echoplex.
  • London audience - anger due to Apples' overly-loud guitars.
  • Jeff Mangum - drums, cow object, backing vocals, handclaps.
  • Tony Miller - backing vocals.
  • Craig Morris - lead and backwards guitar, Mellotron, fuzz bass.
  • Adam Sachs - cowbell, tamborine.
  • Zack Shaw - alto sax, weird toys, echoplex.

[edit] Trivia

  • At the beginning of "Open Eyes" there are two backwards messages being recited simultaneously; one in the left sound channel and one in the right. Played in reverse, the following messages are revealed:
(Left channel):Growing back the pyramids about two miles below/The boundary between two cylinders
(Right channel):More water for the unknown engineer/Orbiting this galactic model

[edit] External links

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