Apples of Idun – While The Night Is A Shade

Releasedate: 13-07-2011
By: Sabine van Gameren

Apples of Idun is an Industrial Rock formation from Finland. The band is working on a full length release and in prior to that release the EP “While The Night Is A Shade” got released.

Three tracks on this EP and it quickly comes to the point. The first track “On And On And On And On” starts calm to slowly built their atmosphere, what sounds like a depressive indie influence blends with warm tunes to support the sound, making some sort of romantic atmosphere around the band. The melancholy of their sound can go nasty in the end, ending up in a point of aggression where the clean vocals disappear and make space for the more aggressive vocals. The tension that is reached within the song gets broken when the next song starts. This time they get faster to the more expressive part of the song, which leaves the start as nothing more than a little teaser. The third song follows the same way as the others did.
In general the songs have in common that the keys are sometimes quite dominant, but also the drums come more upfront than you would have realized, basically everything you are missing in a Solar Fake release comes back in Apples of Idun as a point that is strongest. Simply one release that works, but the for a full length album it might be needed to have one or two songs in there which are radically different just to highlight what the band is up to.

Line Up:
Eetu Moisio – Voice, programming
Jouni Korhonen – Bass
Jani Vilhunen – Drums
Lari Sallinen – Guitar
Niklas Nybom – Keyboards, programming

Tracklist: 01. On And On And On And On 02. My Empire Your Asylum 03. The Falling Man

Links:
Apples of Idun Facebook
Apples of Idun Official