page_title: The Apples in Stereo
section_title: 2009–2011: #1 Hits Explosion and Travellers in Space and Time
hierarchical_section_title: The Apples in Stereo / Band history / 2009–2011: #1 Hits Explosion and Travellers in Space and Time
caption_attribution_description: English: Power pop group The Apples in Stereo perform at The Blue Note in Colombia, Missouri in March 2007.
context_page_description: The Apples in Stereo, styled as The Apples in stereo, are an American rock band associated with Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Of Montreal, and Circulatory System. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics. Currently, The Apples in Stereo also includes longstanding members John Hill and Eric Allen, as well as more recent members John Dufilho, John Ferguson, and Ben Phelan.
  The band's sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles and The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra and Pavement, and also draws from lo-fi, garage rock, new wave, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk, electro-pop and experimental music.
  The band is well known for their appearance in a The Powerpuff Girls music video performing the song "Signal in the Sky". It aired immediately after the show's seventh episode of season 4, "Superfriends", which was based on the song's lyrics.
context_section_description: Yep Roc released #1 Hits Explosion, an Apples in Stereo best-of album, on September 1, 2009.
  In late 2008, PepsiCo released an advertisement with their song "Energy" off of their album New Magnetic Wonder.
  In early 2009, Robert appeared on ABC News's segment called "amplified" and gave some short performances of songs from New Magnetic Wonder and a song from his project "Robert Bobbert and the bubble machine" and he described the album as sounding like early 1970s R&B as it would sound played by aliens and emanating from an alien spaceship.He also confirmed that the band was recording their new album at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, New York. In interviews in Billboard magazine and other press outlets,
  In April 2009, the single "Energy" from New Magnetic Wonder was performed by the contestants on the television show American Idol.
  The result was the band's seventh album Travellers in Space and Time, released on April 20, 2010 on Simian Records. Described by Schneider as a "retro-futuristic" concept album intended as a time capsule for listeners of the future, Travellers has drawn comparisons to the style of Electric Light Orchestra. The record is the first Apples in Stereo album without Hilarie Sidney, making Schneider the last founding member remaining in the group, although John Hill joined before "in stereo" was added to the name. The band was invited by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England.
  Schneider announced in May 2012 that The Apples in Stereo had begun work on a new album, described as being "a very, very different sort of album."
  In recent years, Schneider has explored a number of experimental music projects, such as the Teletron mind-controlled synthesizer and Non-Pythagorean scale of his own invention.
caption: The group performing at the Blue Note in March 2007.
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