Travellers in Space and Time

When this album appeared on my radar, I was a little surprised. I had lost contact with The Apples in Stereo since the pseudo-dissolution of Elephant 6, which, despite its somewhat recent revival, seems like a utopian dream from a bygone era. Indeed, the concept of tape-trading high school/college kids forming a collective to start a lo-fi studio and label with a small rotating stable of bands cros s-pollinating members and styles screams Gen X. So do the Apples in Stereo records I remember: Fun Trick Noisemaker and, to a lesser extent, Her Wallpaper Reverie were full of the sort of fuzzed-out pop songs that defined early-90s "lo-fi"; in my mind, nothing aside from Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand defined the genre more.