Title: Silver Apples
Artiste: Silver Apples
Genre: Experimental/Electronic
Familiarity: Zero
1. Oscillations: Oh I'm really digging this! Funky with a big helping of electronica and the vocal is great too. Somehow I thought it was going to be an instrumental. I read the guy who plays the synth here made it himself. This is 1968 after all, so you have to respect the sounds he can get out of it. Aw, it's over.
2. Seagreen serenades: Another great beat, very catchy, love the percussion. Oh man! Whistle! Superb! Love this.
3. Lovefingers: This is slower, with a sort of Daft Punk feel to it. Yeah, decades before those two guys came on the scene! Hear vestiges of Ultravox in there too.
4. Program: Love the carnival style that opens this, then it settles into a really nice groove with a great vocal and what sounds like violin. Synth-created, sure, but it sounds great. Sampled classical music and speech works very well, and would have, I think, have been pretty revolutionary for that time period.
5. Velvet cave: I have to say I wasn't totally taken with that one. Not sure what it was, but the album seemed to take a sudden dip in quality.
6. Whirly-bird: This one's okay, but again, oddly, just ok. Bassline is nice.
7. Dust: This has a very bleak, atmospheric feel to it. Almost doom-ish. Sweet. Percussion again is excellent and really adds to the atmosphere created.
8. Dancing gods: Based on a Native American dance, it's good for what it is but a little boring.
9. Misty mountain: Much better. To close, we get an early attempt at techno, and it's a blast!
End result: Another undiscovered gem for me. Enjoyed pretty much all of it, and again, have to give great props to the guy for creating a synthesiser almost before they were in vogue and making it sound almost like something out the seventies.
So, Love or Hate? This gets a
Love.