ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA VS. APPLES IN STEREO
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Out Of The Blue (Epic-Legacy)
APPLES IN STEREO
New Magnetic Wonder (Simian/Yep Roc)
Yeah Apples In Stereo, you guys are cool. This new album is pretty good, I guess. Definitely the most put-together stuff I have ever heard from your band. But unfortunately, I received this CD the same exact time I scored a copy of Out Of The Blue in the mail. And next to Out Of The Blue, as perfect an equilibrium as pop can get that sounds just as fresh today as it did 30 years ago to the year, New Magnetic Wonder just can’t cut the mustard, pawl. I would be doing a major disservice to Jeff Lynne by putting up any of the 24 songs on the new Apples album up against “Mr. Blue Sky” or “The Whale” or “Sweet Talkin’ Woman” or “Starlight” or “Big Wheels” or any of the tracks drenched in grandiose arrangements steeped in footnotes from conversations with Bowie and Harrison on this outstanding pop gem. The spaceship on the jacket cover that looks like the game Simon with Jetfire from the Transformers docking in its bay. I’m not saying that New Magnetic Wonder is bad. Just in sequence with a monster like Out Of The Blue, it’s not happening. –Patch Atomz
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