Feel Something

The History of Apple Pie's debut album, Out of View, was an impressive bolt of shoegaze energy, memorable songcraft, and production savvy that staked a claim for the band in the rush and tumble of groups revisiting that very specific style. Following up impressive first albums is always a tricky proposition, one that not a few of the original shoegazers found hard to manage. On their 2014 record, Feel Something, the History of Apple Pie do a fine job of delivering a second album that has much of the same sterling properties as their debut, while giving their guitar noise with sugar-sweet melodies some tweaks here and there, just enough to serve as a progression instead of an unwanted stylistic leap into mediocrity. Bandmember Jerome Watson is once again in the producer's chair, and he does a nice job of scaling back on the group's previously established avalanche of sound in favor of a more precise and subtle approach that pays off with a wider variety of feelings and atmospheres. Song