1997 – Page 78 – Lollipop Magazine

Lummox – Natural Born Swillers – Review

May 1, 1997

Backwoods, redneck rock here to fuck shit up. Speedkills scum punk and roadhouse/outhouse shit-talkin’ jams. “New Country” should be bellowed from bar stools.

Knapsack – Day Three of My New Life – Review

May 1, 1997

Smart, enigmatic lyrics delivered with vocals both imploring and roaring, ultimately erupting into jagged explosions of roaring discord and sonic overflow.

King Black Acid and the Womb Star Orchestra – Sunlit – Review

May 1, 1997

Three songs in sixty minutes, stretching out languidly into the infinite without succumbing to Phishy-smelling jam tendencies or circumambient snoozatoria.

John Fahey – City of Refuge – Review

May 1, 1997

A quiet revolution filtered through open ears – there was classical, slide blues scrapings, and the sounds of his louder descendents made over into ambience.

Jimmy Eat World – Static Prevails – Review

May 1, 1997

Four guys from Mesa, Arizona on their way to the MTV buzz bin in a (sometimes) hard rock band with a cool name playing distorted, clingy, guitar-intense music.

In Flames – The Jester Race – Review

May 1, 1997

Gone are the snakespit vocals, replaced by Anders Fridén and his huskier snarl. The dueling guitars, battling in mid-air like bloodthirsty hawks, remain.

Hovercraft – Akathisia – Review

May 1, 1997

If those that preceded them relied on divine motionlessness, Hovercraft was all about momentum, driving onward and upward to a point that never arrives.

Furry Things – Hedfones – Review

May 1, 1997

Furry Things were a subtribe known to shed their coats frequently. They moved early from the Land of the Lo-Fi, peregrinated to the shores of Shoegaze.

Flying Saucer Attack – Sally Free and Easy – Review

May 1, 1997

A countryman’s ballad, “Sally Free and Easy,” which they coated with distortion and waves of mournful feedback.

EXP – Review

May 1, 1997

Discordant melodies over rhythms that trip over themselves, a clarinet blowing strange figures over clashing sounds, like a carnival in Hell.