Red Apple Falls

{{Infobox album

| name = Red Apple Falls

| type = Album

| artist = Smog

| cover = Red Apple Falls.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1997|05|20}}

| recorded = October 30 – November 3, 1996

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Lo-fi

| length = 43:20

| label = Drag City

| producer = {{hlist|Jim O'Rourke|Bill Callahan}}

| prev_title = The Doctor Came at Dawn

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Knock Knock

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/red-apple-falls-mw0000029740|title=Red Apple Falls – Smog|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=February 25, 2006|last=Phares|first=Heather}}

| rev2 = The Guardian

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite news|title=Smog: Red Apple Falls (Domino)|work=The Guardian|date=May 30, 1997|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline}}

| rev3 = NME

| rev3score = 8/10{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000877reviews.html|title=Smog – Red Apple Falls|magazine=NME|date=May 24, 1997|accessdate=April 23, 2017|last=Mulvey|first=John|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817174136/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000877reviews.html|archive-date=August 17, 2000|url-status=dead}}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Smog|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/754 754–55]}}

| rev5 = Select

| rev5score = 4/5{{cite magazine|title=Smog: Red Apple Falls|magazine=Select|issue=84|date=June 1997|last=Mullen|first=John|page=107}}

| rev6 = Uncut

| rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Cox |first=Tom |date=July 1997 |title=Smog: Red Apple Falls/Palace: Lost Blues and Other Stories/Frankwater: Dancing Underwater |magazine=Uncut |page=95 |issue=2}}

}}

Red Apple Falls is the sixth album by Smog (the alias of Bill Callahan), released in May 1997 on Drag City and re-released in Europe in 2001 by Domino.

Background

Red Apple Falls was recorded by Jim O'Rourke and Callahan, with assistance from Phil Bonnet. It is the first of two Smog records produced by O'Rourke, and Callahan's third team-up with O'Rourke. O'Rourke also plays bass guitar, piano, Hammond organ, hurdy-gurdy and drums on the album.

Songs

"Ex-Con" was released as a single. An early version of "Red Apples" first appeared on Callahan's first EP Floating in 1991, and was later covered by Cat Power for her album The Covers Record. "I Was a Stranger" was redone by Callahan for the 2000 EP 'Neath the Puke Tree.