Heaven Topology :: Some Weird Apples (Ingrown)

Across eleven brief, bright passages, Some Weird Apples sketches a world of riotous melody and lightly broken funk, where playful ideas arrive quickly, bloom, and vanish before overstaying their welcome.

Quick sugar hits of sunshine

North Carolina’s own Ingrown Records delivers a sweet set of ear-candies with Heaven Topology’s Some Weird Apples. Across eleven brief, bright passages, the record sketches a world of riotous melody and lightly broken funk, where playful ideas arrive quickly, bloom, and vanish before overstaying their welcome. The album thrives on brevity: tiny fragments like “A Small Introduction to the Weird Fruits” flicker past in under a minute, while slightly longer cuts such as “Dharma Highways Are Long (and Boring)” and “One” land like quick sugar hits of sunshine on the forearm.

The music moves with a restless curiosity. Fractious yet delicate, its arrangements weave plucked tones, soft percussive snaps, and pastel melodies that feel as airy as spun cotton candy. Nothing feels wasted; each miniature carries its own character while feeding the album’s larger, playful ecosystem. Heaven Topology seems less concerned with grand statements than with capturing fleeting moods—little melodic ideas that sparkle briefly before dissolving into the next.

Standouts arrive in quick succession. The album’s 2:53 centerpiece “You Are So Cool” stretches the format just enough to let its charm fully unfold, while the closing interlude “Even Apples Gotta Sleep Sometime!” gently tucks the record in, ending the ride with a wink. At just the right scale, Some Weird Apples feels light, inventive, and quietly generous.

Some Weird Apples is available on Ingrown. [Bandcamp]