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01. SILVER APPLES - I Have Known Love
02. SILVER APPLES - Together
03. SILVER APPLES - Lovelights
04. SILVER APPLES - You And I
05. SILVER APPLES - Hocus Pocus
06. SILVER APPLES - Cosmic String
07. SILVER APPLES - Ancient Path
08. SILVER APPLES - The Dance
09. SILVER APPLES - The Gift
10. SILVER APPLES - Daisy
11. SILVER APPLES - Misty Mountain
ARTIST
TITLE
Beacon
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CCR 004CD CCR 004CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/11/2016

Beacon is the fourth album for the Silver Apples, the "come back album", produced by Steve Albini and originally released in 1997 on CD only. Eight of the tracks were new songs that former exile and Silver Apples leader Simeon had composed with recent additions Xian Hawkins and Michael Lerner. The remaining three tunes are remakes from the Silver Apples's past. A reworking of "I Have Known Love" opens the record. "You and I" is given an appropriate chaotic reading; a wall of cacophonous keyboards forms in the instrumental breaks, like the video game Stargate on tilt. Of the originals, the vocal-less "Cosmic String" is the standout, developing a Trans Am groove with sounds recalling the moment the beloved Pac-Man is caught by his nemesis, Speedy. Beacon is full of the influence of '80s video games, no doubt incorporated by the twenty-something Hawkins.