Indie rock act the Apples In Stereo has signed to Simian Records, a new imprint of Yep Rock Records founded by actor Elija Wood. The band will release their first album in five years, titled New Magnetic Wonder, on February 7th. The band and Lord Of The Rings star hooked up at the SXSW music festival in Austin, TX in 2003. The band had departed from their long time home of spinART at the same time Wood was launching Simian. New Magnetic Wonder features 14 songs (and 12 musical segues) produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Ramones, Lemonheads). A enhanced portion of the record will detail the "Non-Pythagorean Scale," a new musical scale invented by Apples vocalist Robert Schneider.

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