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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...
...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 much, and so their end product is polished but hardly original...
Harvard played catch up the entire match, but the players never lost focus and intensity. Kuld exemplified this effort by sprinting out of bounds to save two balls, once diving on the floor and once slamming into the wall...
Sophomore Shannon Purcell scored once in the losing effort...
Indeed, the second period was rock-solid as the Crimson matched the Hawks, scoring three goals apiece. Co-captain Kristina Bergquist and sophomore attack Monica Zdrojewski each chipped in a goal, and junior attack Patricia Smith scored on a breakaway in the strong offensive effort...