Lollipop Magazine

Circle of Dust – Disengage – Review

September 1, 1998

From experimental/ambient/avant noise to ripping, guitar-driven material with distorted vocals, to the throbbing percussion, Disengage speaks in many tongues.

Clowns For Progress – Progress – Review

September 1, 1998

Brad’s riffing, when matched with a Knacky drum roll, or Billy Idolish “Whooaw!,” is timeless rock through and through.

Zen Guerrilla – Positronic Raygun – Review

September 1, 1998

This mutation of Isaac Hayes, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Chambers Brothers, and the Cramps is something no self-respectin’ rock’n’roll fan should be without.

Zeke – Kicked in the Teeth – Review

September 1, 1998

Zeke concern themselves with motorcycles and fuckin’, but singer Blind Marky Felchtone’s lyric poetry is often obscured by his tendency to sing really fast.

Wretch Like Me – New Ways to Fall – Review

September 1, 1998

This Fort Collins band combines humor and scathing attitude, the best of the old and new school, produced at The Blasting Room, with a healthy dose of SST.

China Drum – Self Made Maniac – Review

September 1, 1998

Self Made Maniac can be listened to, absently hummed, or dissected by a music reviewer who’d rip the stuffing out of it if he could only find a loose thread.

World of Silence – Mindscapes – Review

September 1, 1998

These lads listen to Dream Theater and Marillion, and it shows.

Chicklet – Lemon Chandeliers – Review

September 1, 1998

With tunes that rise and fall in pigtail-bouncing chromatic progressions, this music lends itself to being sung in loud, easy harmonies, cruising down I-95.

Wild Strawberries – Quiver – Review

September 1, 1998

A little of Sarah McLachlan’s style-stumbling, though the ecstasy is a little less ethereal and more riddled with self-consciously assertive cynicism.

Caustic Resin – The Medicine Is All Gone – Review

September 1, 1998

More ‘lude than lewd, more glum than glam – it’ll sound nice at your next faux-fag filled ’70s/OD’d-party-guest revival party.