January 2000 – Page 18 – Lollipop Magazine

Squeeze – Domino – Review

January 1, 2000

Squeeze can do better. Banal references to Kurt Cobain and The Simpsons leave lots of room for more words to fill the stumbling musical space.

Spirit Caravan – Dreamwheel – Review

January 1, 2000

A fully rounded drone slice of biker/doom that owes less to any specific than the general man vs. nature rock as rock push.

Mammoth Volume – Review

January 1, 2000

Like Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” a side of The Sabbath Show that gets down-played but is as emotionally-integrated into their “thing” as the stompass is.

Speedealer – Here Comes Death – Review

January 1, 2000

Loud, fast’n’aggro music is always gonna have a place as long as teen misfits feel a need to beat each other up. Speedealer is all about that, no shit.

Soulwax – Much Against Everyone’s Advice – Review

January 1, 2000

Stephen’s almost Zevon-esque attention to the words and the feelings evokes more than a pop song should, rubbing up the high emotion of good folk rock.

Macha – Review

January 1, 2000

Somewhere between continents, floating above the ocean, the music of several countries mingles in a sometimes rhythmic, sometimes muddy mix.

Sons of Otis – Templeball – Review

January 1, 2000

The words “dumb” and “slow” are large factors. There’s lotsa Cro-Magnon lurching happening here, and none of it’s pretty.

Slick Sixty – Nibs and Nabs – Review

January 1, 2000

Hooray for Slick Sixty, who’ve made the album the Chemical Brothers and Death in Vegas wished they could have made.

Skull Control – Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture – Review

January 1, 2000

When Chris Thomas gets into his frequent, bratty Ian Mackaye imitations, and bass-fumbler Kim Thompson backs up with moany harmonies, all’s pretty good.

Sinergy – Beware the Heavens – Review

January 1, 2000

Reminds me of the band concocted for Wayne’s World: Tia Carrere, the Marc Somethingerother from Keel, and a couple other guys who look like they’re in bands.