For the 13th instalment (I was trying for 50, but I guess that might not happen before the end of June) of my album profiling series, I've chosen The Apples' "Buzzin' About". This is "The Apples" and not "The Apples in Stereo". They are two totally different bands. "The Apples" are Uri Wertheim, Erez Todres, Ofer Tal, Yuval Tabachnik, Oleg Naiman, Arthur Krasnobaev, Yaron Ouzana, Shai Ran and Yonadav Halevy. That last sentence took me like, 5 minutes to type.
The Apples are an Israeli (or are they from the UK??) funk band and they're apparently not very well known. I say this because they don't even have a wikipedia page, so there goes my primary information source! I first heard them on CKUA, and I said to myself: "This is bad-ass. I must get their album!"
Their music is a neat blend of jazzy sounds and 70s style soul and funk with a little bit of electronic production tossed in for good measure. I like to think the end result sounds distinctly Jewish, but what do I know? It's a pretty rad album overall, and it ends off with a jazz/funk cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the name".
I guess it's kind of hard for me to describe them, so just take a listen:
Run this Town:
Killing:
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