With a patchwork recording process that’s worth acknowledging because it can be heard in the final product, Golden Apples’ fifth album, Shooting Star, was captured with a variety of collaborators, at multiple locations, and with a selection of headspaces and inspirations. Consistent, however, is the welcoming, raw-and-ready delivery of bandleader Russell Edling, along with his world-weary lyrics and his melodic and jangly, college rock-informed musical sensibility. So fans need not despair, even if the resulting album is on the capricious side. Sounding something like a reverb-heavy slow dance, opener “Another Grand Offering for the Swine,” for instance, is a brief, demo-like entry having something to do with the food chain and a deliverance that sets one…

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