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Written by PLAYBACK:stl Sunday, 28 June 2009 17:00

Elephant 6's pop darlings, The Apples in Stereo have put together a 16-track collection of singles that will highlight the best of their six album spam.

Citing Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys as their root text a decade before it was indie-en vogue, Robert Schneider and former/future band members Hilarie Sidney, Jim McIntyre, Chris Parfitt, John Hill, Eric Allen, Chris McDuffie, Bill Doss, John Ferguson, John Dufilho, along with countless friends and cohorts, used their basement-D.I.Y. beginnings as a launching pad into a kaleidoscopic galaxy of sound. Constantly mutating from debut album Fun Trick Noisemaker through recent opus New Magnetic Wonder, that galaxy has expanded from 4-track recordings made in Robert's bedroom to 100-track sonic experiments complete with new musical scales.

Through his songwriting and playing with The Apples, his influential production work for other Elephant 6 bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control) and his many side projects (Marbles, Thee American Revolution, Ulysses), Schneider has been long respected as an architect of modern indie-pop.

The collection is due out on September 1 on Yep Roc Records.