The Apples in Stereo just announced that they’re going to release their new album, New Magnetic Wonder, February 7th on Elijah Wood’s Simian Records. The release will mark the first for Simian, and the first in five years for the Apples.

As previously reported, New Magnetic Wonder will have a wide range of guests from the Elephant 6 gang. Thanks to Yep Roc–who is distributing the album–we can say more about that! Guests include: John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control), W. Cullen Hart (OTC), Bill Doss (OTC) and, you guessed it, Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel).

From Yep Roc’s page:

New Magnetic Wonder Track Listing:

SIDE 1

1. Can You Feel It?
2. Skyway
3. Mellotron 1
4. Energy
5. Same Old Drag
6. Joanie Don’t U Worry
7. Sunndal Song**
8. Droplet
9. Play Tough
10. Sun is Out
11. Non-Pythagorean Composition 1

SIDE 2

12. Hello Lola
13. 7 Stars
14. Mellotron 2
15. Sunday Sounds**
16. Open Eyes
17. Crimson
18. Pre-Crimson
19. Vocoder Ba Ba
20. Radiation
21. Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2
22. Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4
23. My Pretend
24. Non-Pythagorean Composition 3
**Lead Vocals by Hilarie Sidney

To celebrate the news, here’s a full concert of the Apples in Stereo playing a set of almost all new songs, plus Robert and Bill Doss sharing a few inside bits on the new album!

WMV: The Apples in stereo – 9-1-05 Lexington, KY (224MB)

Robert Schneider: [on the new album’s style] “I would put it between Discovery… and Fun Trick Noisemaker, except it’s more ‘hooky.’ It’s a little more classic rock. It’s a little bit more AM radio, like from the 70s. It’s slightly more space age sounding. It’s very poppy, it’s very produced.”

MP3: The Apples in Stereo – Energy (live)

Bill Doss: [on playing with the Apples] “I’ve always wanted to, but for the longest time I was doing Olivia too much and he was doing the Apples so much, that we couldn’t share members. But when he came down to Athens, we were making up these parts and he was like ‘man, we’ve got to have these harmony parts and we need some percussion.’ Then he was like ‘you wanna go on tour?’ and I was like ‘yeah I want to go on tour!’”

MP3: The Apples in Stereo – Skyway (live)

Robert Schneider: [on the inclusion of guests] “We had more time between records to work on stuff. It’s more of a personal move on my part, than a band move. I wanted to work with old friends and see where that takes me. It’s about getting older and having old friends that you love… It’s not that we decided to have ‘guests’ on the record, but I wanted to have my friends involved in the record because it makes me feel creative and inspired.”