A Monarch butterfly once took flight, bobbing and weaving his way through heavy traffic in an overly crowded downtown area. Eventually, the butterfly found himself flying high above a dementedly howling street person whom was screaming "These apples, these apples they are in stereo!" to all who passed him. Moments later, the homeless man collapsed into a whiskey soaked heap on the sidewalk. The butterfly thought to himself that the crumpled madman had probably just had his first exposure to the grandiose majesty of the Apples in Stereo’s The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone.

As he flew onward, the butterfly reminisced about the first time he had heard The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone. Floating nearly weightless above the ground, he remembered its Beatles-esque melodies, free-flowing harmonies and fuzzy guitar blasts. He thought about how different its crunchy chords were from the Apples’ previous two full lengths -- Tone Soul Evolution and Fun Trick Noisemaker -- which for the most part contained slice after slice of clean, yet insanely catchy and melodic Beach Boys-inspired pop. He pondered the way that "Discovery" dripped like honey from his speakers, its mixture of 90’s rock, 60’ pop and 70’s funk swirling together to form gooey, fuzz-encrusted nuggets of perfect pop. He was, as you might have gathered, an unusually erudite insect.

Stopping to rest on the branch of a wilted sycamore tree, the butterfly daydreamed about the dirge-like guitar and piping horns of opener "Go", the full-tilt rocking swagger and gorgeous Hillary Sidney-led vocal harmony of "20 Cases Suggestive Of", and even took a mental wander through the digital funk-out and seductive strum of "The Bird That You Can’t See". This last selection proved to be a little more than ironic, for as the butterfly continued to daydream about the McCartney-esque guitars and psychedelic underpinnings of "Look Away" and the strange Sabbath-meets-Byrds feel of "I Can’t Believe", a bird that the butterfly could not see swooped down and ate him. Just another case of tragic Rock n’ Roll irony.

And the moral of the story? The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone finds the Apples in Stereo at the top of their game, delivering the album that everybody knew they had in them... even a certain Monarch butterfly, who -- as you also now know -- is humming away in that sneaky bird’s stomach.