Artist: Apollo Ghosts
Release: Landmark
Discogs: 3608695
Released: 2012-05-15
Label: You've Changed Records
Catalog#: YC014 / YC-014
Format: WEB
Country: Canada
Style: Rock, Alternative Rock

Tracklisting:

A1. What Are Your Influences?
A2. American Joint
A3. I'm In Love With The U.S.A.
A4. Why Can't I Be The Man On Stage?
A5. Violet Margaret
A6. So Much Better When You're Gone
A7. Landmark
B1. Weekend Fantasy
B2. Day Of Glory
B3. For What They Do, They Do
B4. Paralysis Of My Long Clerkship
B5. I Followed The Rules And I Got
B6. Guitar Brother
B7. Newcastle
B8. Will You Forget Me?

ancouver, BC's Apollo Ghosts garnered heaps of praise for 2010's concept album, Mount Benson, racking up a Polaris Prize long list nod in the process. In the two years that followed, the band went out of their way not to capitalize on its success, infrequently touring and releasing a string of lo-fi releases in increasingly non-traditional formats (seven-inches, a split with an ECCW wrestler, a short story book). Finally we get a proper follow-up with Landmark, which finds the group, now expanded to a quartet, with the addition of Jarrett K. on bass, playing to their strengths without rehashing the past. Landmark was self-produced and recorded in the band's rehearsal space yet actually sounds tougher and heavier than previous outings. It lacks the clear thematic thread of Mount Benson, but there's a definite sense of band members easing into their 30s on reflective tracks like "I Followed the Rules and I Got Everything," while taking pot-shots at reductive music journalism on opener "What are Your Influences?" Landmark is chock-a-block with hooks, butting up against weird sonic experimentation that ensures there's something new to discover on repeated listens.
 
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