From Facebook:
Q: Robert Schneider, I just happened to wonder: WHICH is your favourite AiS album?
A: Robert Schneider Mark it is impossible to say… every album is like a montage of beautiful memories and big ambitions, colored by the music i was listening to at that time… I think Fun Trick Noisemaker, New Magnetic Wonder, and Travellers in Space and Time might be my top three, in no particular order… our first EP and Wallpaper Reverie are dear to me too… objectively, probably Discovery and New Magnetic are our best, and represent the band and my own production and engineering ambitions… so I guess New Magnetic Wonder would be my number one, being both favorite and best: we took time to make it perfect because it was made outside the time constraints and schedules of a record contract (our contract with spinART had expired and we vowed not to sign a new deal until the album was done), it involved travel all over the country, work in countless studios, home studios and living rooms, brought in most of my oldest and best friends as well as new friends and collaborators, saw the invention of a new musical scale, the mixture of extreme lo-fi and extreme hi-fi sounds, and spans almost everything The Apples ever set out to do (save the sci-fi thread that began with Rocket Pad and FTN and culminated with Travellers)… also it broke out of a period in which I had been disillusioned with ornate psych production values, so carries a feeling of religious reawakening for me… and it was the return of the E6 logo and of our rebirth as a collective. But I love them all, they are the traces of my life and adventures… that being said, I almost never listen to my own records.
