As part of the influential Elephant 6 collective of bands, Denver's Apples In Stereo have always sounded almost conventional when compared with their colleagues (particularly psychedelic-folk noise-mongers Neutral Milk Hotel and Oliver Tremor Control).

That said, the group's clear obsession with Revolver-era Beatles and Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, among other things gilded and/or trippy, saw to it that their low recording budgets and lo-fi gear couldn't restrain their idealistic pop charm. Discovery ... finds the Apples stretching out even further, taking their usual arsenal of jangly guitars, boppy harmonies, arcane electronics, hand-claps and horns out for a psychedelic-soul manoeuvre that would be a total mess if the band, namely lead beardo Robert Schneider, didn't have such a keen sense of how to make it all so darned catchy.

Recommended for fans of: Beck, Sloan, The Velvet Underground's Loaded.

Track Listing 01.Go
  02.The Rainbow
  03.Stream Running Over
  04.20 Cases Suggestive Of...
  05.Look Away
  06.What Happened Then
  07.I Can't Believe
  08.Submarine Dream
  09.Allright/Not Quite
  10.The Bird That You Can't See
  11.Stay Gold
  12.The Afternoon