#1058 Silver Apples - Contact

On their second album, Silver Apples made the leap: they turned their buzzy, blowing oscillations, their loopy, droney degredations of pop, into actual songs. They went from experimentation to realization in one year, and while the world did a lot of catching up from 1968 to 1969, the Apples aren't running on pure originality on this album: these are hooky, strange rock songs that actually rock, all underpinned by those revolutionary, masterful, primitive synthesizer cycles. You and I is unbeatable with full pre-TKOL skitterey menace, and I Have Known Love is goddamned beautiful, a tragically, completely overlooked masterpiece of trippy 60's pop. A legitimate hidden gem for lovers of strange, inventive, unexpectedly catchy rock and roll 4.5/5