I haven’t seen too much about Apparatjik yet considering the spectrum of people involved apart from some coverage on music blogs and online magazines (and Day and Night last week).
It’s an odd one as the band are essentially a supergroup made up of Coldplay’s Guy Berryman, A-ha keyboardist Magne Furuholmen and Mew singer Jonas Bjerre. The resulting music is pretty much better than all their bands combined, certainly more interesting anyway. The Quietus debuted this live video from Berlin of the band performing ‘Snow Crystals’ inside a cube with Silent Shout-esque visuals. They have an album called We Are Here too. Interesting stuff and the songs ain’t half-bad either.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
Lovely tune and nice video. Love that kind of distorted synth/guitar sound.