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...Apples in Stereo seem to straddle the boundaries between decades, employing vocodered choruses and synthesized beats to emulate bands like 1970s pop giants Electric Light Orchestra. Their seventh studio effort, “Travellers in Space and Time,” travels indeed; it channels 1970s electropop through the filter of the band’s own 1990s heyday. In subject matter, too, the band straddles boundaries, combining frontman Robert Schneider’s love for science and technology with the band’s musical creativity...
Though this could lead to an excess of ideas, “Travellers” is actually surprisingly cohesive; its synthesizer’s creeping presence serves as a sort of glue. For what the album attempts to be—a kind of 1970s throwback—it succeeds. But it lacks climax, both in specific songs and in “Travellers” as a whole. The album’s topography is linear, and when coupled with simplistic, often cheesy lyrics, the effort seems formulaic. The Apples take a 1970s formula and repeat it without adding...
...collectively lack shape; the songs build to nothing, and seem to be electric, synthetic variations on the same retro theme. The lyrics remain blasé, the whine of the vocals can be grating, and though the tracks are often irresistibly catchy, they too seldomnly add anything to the 1970s sound that the Apples wish to emulate. The Apples in Stereo may know their influences, but they struggle to expand upon them...
Meselson, whose laboratory has been stationed in Fairchild Labs for nearly 30 years, was instrumental in securing finances and construction plans for the building during his tenure as MCB department chair in the late 1970s...
With such a low score entering the second half of the match, anxieties in Blodgett were running high. The rivalry, which dates back to the 1970s, was in full force as the teams swapped close shots...