2009 reissue, the first CD release of one of the most enigmatic Pop albums of the `60s: Playback by The Appletree Theatre."Itâs an inventive pop album with great songs, strange sound effects, comedy bits and trippy dialogue in between some of the tracks. Fans of Friends era Beach Boys, Family Tree, the Smoke (Michael Lloydâs band) and the Millennium will really love this record though it has more of a downbeat mood than the before mentioned sunshine pop classics." - The Rising Storm. The project was set up by brothers Terry and John Boylan. Essentially a loosely-woven concept album, divided into three acts. It`s an inventive Pop album with great songs, strange sound effects, comedy bits and trippy dialogue comprising a collage of interlaced vocal narratives, sound effects, and song fragments, recalling the Golden Age of radio, and prefiguring the antics of The Firesign Theatre, along with top quality Pop songs such as `Hightower Square` and `I Wonder If Louise Is Home`, with its distorted megaphone vocals and soaring horns. Some of the tracks suggest the boys may have indulged in too many Psychedelic drugs. It`s not for us to say.
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