1997 – Page 42 – Lollipop Magazine

Los Terribles – Review

September 1, 1997

While this self-titled release is a coaster, perhaps with a lot of work on taking their songs the distance, they might be able to open for someone good.

Longpigs – The Sun is Often Out – Review

September 1, 1997

Crispen Hunt’s vocals (complete with angelic falsetto) to make the Longpigs a great band, but they also write the most powerful pop songs I’ve ever heard.

Baboon – Secret Robot Control – Review

September 1, 1997

Baboon has succeeded in interjecting some high-quality, palpable, and richly if not delicately textured material into Secret Robot Control.

Lard – Pure Chewing Satisfaction – Review

September 1, 1997

Jello’s points sometimes risk getting lost amongst the slam-racket. Refer to the shocking, revelatory, and hilarious newsprint collage in the lyric booklet.

Autumn Dawn – …Emptiness – Review

September 1, 1997

Nice throaty growling, some even-tempoed riffing, a few melodic transitions to break up the monotony, but with weak drum production and overall muddy sound.

L.A.P.D. – Review

September 1, 1997

Combining ’90’s self-titled EP and ’91’s, Who’s Laughing Now, this re-issue shows three members of Korn in their early, funky metal, solo-happy stages.

Attrition – Étude – Review

September 1, 1997

This album sound human, as if they were in a sitting room, with a few spectators, creating a music that is both dark and haunting as well as organic and fresh.

Jack Drag – Unisex Headwave – Review

September 1, 1997

The tone is at times pure pop ethereal or woozy psychedelic “slackadaisical” and at others, an inventive, overly fuzzy organ-fueled search for a melody.

Arab on Radar – Queen Hygiene II – Review

September 1, 1997

There’s no melody or harmony here, and singing along would be a difficult feat. This is not funny or a joke. It is totally raw, driving, piercing.

Hooverphonic – A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular – Review

September 1, 1997

These guys in Belgium realized that if ya take half of a Portishead and do something Tricky to it, you end up with A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular.