Her Wallpaper Reverie (Reis)

The Apples In Stereo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: One Little Indian Us
• ASIN: B0012RCMC4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,350 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shiney Sea

2. The Significance of a Floral Print

3. Strawberryfire

4. From Outside, in Floats a Music Box

5. Ruby

6. Questions and Answers

7. Drifting Patterns

8. Y2K

9. Les Amants

10. Benefits of Lying (With Your Friend)

11. Ruby, Tell Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Pop Gem, April 28, 2003

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This review is from: Her Wallpaper Reverie (Audio CD)

This ep is lovely and quaint, fitting perfectly in my cd collection. I'm usually not a big fan of experimental interludes, but on this cd, they're short enough to maintain your interest. The first real track on here is the shiney sea, a spacey, psychotomimetic blast from the past. Very pyschadelic, very cool. Strawberryfire (so good) is the next full song. It's another 60s, beatlesque song with charming harmonies and blissful insouciance. Ruby is the next whole track. More jaunty pop fun. Next up are my two favorites on this disc, Questions & Answers, and Y2K. Both are superb tracks. Questions and Answers is another upbeat track that's extremely catchy and Y2K is a facetious mockery backed up by awesome music. Benefits of Lying and Ruby are the last two real tracks on the cd. These two are slower and more subdued than the other songs, but they're just as good. This ep is amazing, I recommend it to everybody.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The greatest EP I've bought in many years!, July 29, 2000

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This review is from: Her Wallpaper Reverie (Audio CD)

This EP (yes, it's an EP, not an album) is just irresistable. The proper songs are uniformly amazing and contain so much wonderful, spirited '60s-influenced songcraft. This is one of those albums that just puts a big goofy smile on my face when I listen to it (and I mean that as high compliment).

As mentioned by other reviewers, there are six proper songs, interspersed with nine short, mostly instrumental "themes." ("Ruby, Tell Me" has vocals, but at less than a minute, doesn't really qualify as a proper song.) I find most of the instrumental weirdness between the proper tracks to be interesting rather than annoying. To me, the strange, jarring sounds and ambient undertones establish a sort of flip-side to the sunny proper tunes -- perhaps depicting the dark side of a bad trip. They are mostly very short and easily digested, although "Drifting Patterns" lasts too long and can get on my nerves with its repetitive notes.

If I were to quibble, I could say that "Y2K" is already a bit dated due its title and subject matter. But take it as a sort of topical song of the day.

All in all, a GREAT psychedelic effort. As much as I enjoy their poppy new "The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone," I would like the Apples to release a proper album in the same vein as "Her Wallpaper Reverie." They might not want to be The Olivia Tremor Control, but this EP proves that they certainly could go more in that direction, with excellent results, if they wanted to.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars more excellent apples, June 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Her Wallpaper Reverie (Audio CD)

This highly anticipated album has great pop songs and mini soundscapes, sounding unlike any other apples cd to date. Its a good one to own if you like OTC. The short running time left me yearning for more, so don't expect a long epic. Still a great cd, though.