From The Desk Of The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider: Things That Are Futuristic

Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some deranged conjurer, instantly discards and modifies them, apologizes for going off the tracks, backs the engine up to the starting point, begins talking about something entirely different, then excuses himself to take brief notes on some future project while humming a melody that’s just popped into his head. He’s also one of a handful of great songwriters to emerge over the past 20 years, a psych/pop genius whose knack for addictive melodies and memorable lyrics is perfectly obvious on Travellers In Space And Time (Simian/Yep Roc). Schneider will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with him.

Schneider: My dad is an architect with very modern taste in design, and I think that influenced my aesthetic preferences from birth. I get really excited by futuristic buildings, vehicles, music, fashion and ideas. The sounds and instrumentation we chose to use on Travellers In Space And Time reflect a vision of the future imagined by the children of the 20th century, influenced by sci-fi and futurism, a Utopian future where humanity thrives on Earth and in space.

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