RSSApollo Sunshine’s new album, Shall Noise Upon, is available digitally and on vinyl today, August 5.
To celebrate, the band has teamed up with imeem to offer an exclusive stream of the entire album, which you can hear here, here, here (with the good people at JamBase), or below.
When Apollo Sunshine was in San Francisco, back in June, imeem was also able to catch up with the trio and get some really great live footage. Here’s an acoustic version of “Breeze,” which is especially interesting because anyone who’s seen their live show knows they’re anything but mellow performers.
SPIN.com was there to document the show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool last night, calling it “an hour-plus of effects pedal-drenched guitar and harmonized give-it-all-you-got vocals, channeling the energy of the Flaming Lips and Neutral Milk Hotel.” URB.com had nice words, too, declaring it to be “one of the more solid performanceswe’ve seen in New York in a minute,” the band able to “…[incorporate] multiple genres without sounding like wannabe trendhoppers.”
(Photo by Sachyn Mital)
Shall Noise Upon has been getting some pretty good buzz among those in the know, too. JamBase calls it “fan-fuckin-tastic,” NPR’s Second Stage says “the [cover] image suggests the record somehow takes the disparate cultures of a large world and unifies them into a single, genre-breaking, stargazing album. It may seem like an impossibly lofty goal, but the songs deliver,” The Boston Phoenix states that it “threatens to be the definitive statement to come out of Boston’s reburgeoning indie-rock scene this year,” and Paste Magazine says “Never troubled by the problem of finding a voice so much as slowing down the torrent of post-everything fuzz guitar, tempo shifts and schizoid stomps, the trio here finds a middle ground between melody and experimentation. Part is simply a matter of consolidating structures—verse/weirdness/verse—but there’s also a newfound grace and, in that, an even-keeled mission.” Hot damn!
If you’re lucky enough to be near New York tonight, you can still hop aboard the Jewel at 7pm (part of the Rocks Off Concert Cruise series) to check out Apollo Sunshine, Sam Champion, and Drug Rug for what should be a very good time. If not, well, watch the video, listen to the album, and prepare yourself for what’s to come.
Artist: Apollo Sunshine
Album: Shall Noise Upon
Label: Headless Heroes
Street Date: September 2, 2008 – CD; August 5, 2008 – Digital/ Vinyl
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