No, this may not be the Apparat you know from previous LPs. For one thing, it's the soundtrack to an experimental German theater production of Tolstoy's War & Peace, and it has the swelling strings and pensive atmospheres to match. But it's also not that much of a departure; freed from pop constraints and club structures, Apparat gets to stretch out and really revel in the pensive luminescence of his electro-acoustic sound worlds. In other words, he sounds as emo as ever, which is exactly what we love him for, but even more expansive.