Boy With Apple – Queen City Sounds and Art

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Boy With Apple’s final single from its debut album Attachment is “Good For You.” The song’s ethereal melodies are enveloping and transporting and though there is the gorgeously gossamer guitar work and winsome vocals for which the band has become known there is an element to its composition that seems rooted in the aesthetics of electronic music and beatmaking. The result is a composition that drifts into your brain and takes you on an emotional journey exploring uncertainty in love while holding a certainty about how you feel. The line “How can I be good for you when I’m not even good for me” is delivered with such delicacy it speaks to a perspective of unselfish yearning, of wanting to love and be loved but not to harm in the course of a relationship. Fans of Black Tambourine and Lush will appreciate the genre-bending style of the song and the way it articulates complex feelings with an expansive musical reach and a willingness to let the sounds linger and interact organically with an analog sparkle. Listen to “Good For You” on Spotify and follow Gothenburg, Sweden’s Boy With Apple at the links provided. The Boy With Apple debut album Attachment was released March 15, 2024.

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In the beginning of Boy With Apple’s “Brighter Than The Sun” it sounds as though you’re about to be dropped into a late 90s Britpop song but in a move similar to what we heard on “Sugar” by Beach Fossils, Boy With Apple takes a sharp left turn not so much into lush post-punk but transportingly ethereal dream pop. The percussion accents and grounds the music with its steady yet expressive drive while the vocals sound like they’re coming from somewhere deep in a luminous cave. Keyboards hold a glistening melody as guitars surge and swirl like billowing clouds of effervescent tone. It sounds a little lo-fi but that adds to the mystery of the song like footage of a lost shoegaze band of the early 90s shot on sixteen millimeter two track audio capture. There’s a rough charm to it even though the song has a softness that makes it immediately accessible. Listen to “Brighter Than The Sun” on Spotify and follow Boy With Apple at the links provided.