Her Wallpaper Reverie [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Australian exclusive edition of the psychedelic indie pop act's 1999 release with 5 bonus tracks, 'Behind The Waterfall', 'Everybody Let Up', 'Her Pretty Face', 'The Friar's Lament' and 'Extended Introduction'. 20 tracks in all. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

Her Room Is A Rainy Garden (Wallpaper Reverie Theme)
Morning Breaks (And Roosters Complain)
The Shiney Sea
The Significance Of A Floral Print
Strawberryfire
From Outside, In Floats A Music Box
Ruby
She Looks Through Empty Windows
Questions And Answers
Drifting Patterns
Y2K
Les Amants
Benefits Of Lying (With Your Friend)
Ruby, Tell Me
Together They Dream Into The Evening

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The great thing about being part of a musical collective is that not only can you draw from the work of your peers for inspiration, you can rely on your peers themselves. As part of Elephant 6, the Apples in Stereo are involved in a symbiotic relationship with such like-minded bands as Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel. For example, Apples frontman Robert Schneider produced a previous OTC album and OTC controller William Cullen Hart designed the artwork for the Apples' new record, Her Wallpaper Reverie. So it's no surprise that Wallpaper sounds like a more cohesive sequel to OTC's mind-bending Black Foliage. What is surprising is just how vast an improvement it is over the Apples' last sugary pop disc, Tone Soul Evolution. A psychedelic excursion threaded together with chiming, repetitive interludes, the album blends the styles of Revolver-era Beatles with those of Smile-era Beach Boys, resulting in a shimmering pop cocktail that's both crafty and infectious. Only two flaws: the interludes become a tad annoying and the album is only 27 minutes long, leaving the listener begging for more. Fortunately, most CDs have a repeat-play button. --Jon Wiederhorn

Album Description

1999 album, the follow-up their successful '97 album, 'Tone Soul Evolution'. A return to the fuzzy rock sound of their earlier releases while taking giant steps forward, it contains 15 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Imagine!.......2007-05-05

Imagine what it would have sounded like if the Beatles finished recording Sgt. Pepper and then decided to record an album with members of the Beach Boys. No, wait! You don't have to imagine it. Just listen to "Her Wallpaper Reverie"!!! This is a joyful collection of neo-psychedelic tunes that is bouncy, fun and clever from end-to-end.

great CD.......2007-01-21

this is a great CD, I bought it for my husband who is a huge beatles fan and he loved it!

A very good psychedelic pop EP with three great songs - most should like it - 4.5 stars.......2006-01-09

"Her Wallpaper Reverie" may be a pretty short EP, but it's definitely worth it. The EP has three great psychedelic pop songs ("The Shiney Sea", "Strawberryfire" and "Ruby"), and while the rest aren't as great they're still very good. It's just a very interesting and creative EP. I wouldn't call it a "classic", but genre fans will definitely love every minute of it. The lyrics tend to be pretty pointless, although they can be interesting at times (and catchy - see "Ruby"). The musicianship is very 60's-ish - it could've easily come out in that decade. Indie pop fans will love this, and everyone else will probably like the first three "real" songs on here (the roman numeraled songs are psychedelic experimental instrumentals). For $10.00, though, I don't think it has enough songs on it to warrant a "5". All in all, this is highly recommended!

Highlights include:
the entire EP!

Good songs but too few.......2004-10-02

I got this Cd because I liked the two Cds "Fun Trick Noisemaker" and "tone soul evolution" and that I had heard the songs on it were the best so far. When I listened to the Cd I was disappointed, the songs that were there were indeed very good, but there were too few and the Cd was too brief. The Apples attempt to sound like Olivia Tremor Control with the artistic sounds didnt work for such a short EP, and the fact that they all sounded the same. But the songs that are there are very good, heavily influenced by the Kinks and the Beatles. A good Cd but shouldnt be priced over $5.

Too much noodling, not enough songcraft.......2004-06-28

Her Wallpaper Reverie is simultaneously one of the best and worst CDs I've listened to in a long time. How can it be both at once, you're asking? Well, it's rather like this...

On one hand, you have the Apples' trademark ability to synthesize 60s pop down to absolutely brilliant and tasty pop nuggets. "The Shiney Sea" floats by like a lone cloud on a sunny day, "Ruby" almost effortlessly manages to sound both like early Beatles and create a song as catchy as anything the Beatles did in their early days, and there's, of course, the brilliant "Strawberryfire," which almost manages to outdo Lennon's psychadelic sound experiments like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

However, with every brilliant song such as this, there is the horrendous filler. I rather like psychadelia, but the stopgap tracks between songs are pure directionless noodling. None of them start anywhere and most of them end nowhere, leaving you to scratch your head. And that says nothing about the concept of this CD either. Who in their right mind would actually RECORD a CD about what happens when you take a few too many bonghits and stare at the wallpaper for a while?