
Innovators in pop are very rare. And when there is, a familiar pattern emerges: Proponent of new sound gets minor fame through aforementioned newness of sounds. Others quickly pick up new technique/style, and due to further innovation become even more famous. Then everyone else follows suit, and charts are flooded with dreary watered-down nonsense. Bad times. Such is the self-consuming nature of pop. Like everything in pop music, the laptop 'n' traditional guitar-band combo is nothing new. But it was once. Today's New Band, Apple Eyes, have grasped this idea [...]