Lollipop Magazine

Wolfpac – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Review

January 1, 2000

I like ICP, I think they’re “funny,” so it’s not like low-brow, fuck-p.c. humor is abhorrent to me, but Wolfpac have taken it one-choke over the line.

The Stereo – Three Hundred – Review

January 1, 2000

Everything that’s fun and exciting about pop rock is here: The perfect sing-along, the perfect pick-me-up, the perfect “she broke up with me” music.

Beaver – Lodge – Review

January 1, 2000

Beaver hail from Amsterdam, and like seemingly every other European stoner/heavy band in existence, they sound as if they were weaned on Kyuss albums and weed.

Bardo Pond – Set and Setting – Review

January 1, 2000

There’s something detachedly sexy in Bardo Ponds’s slow, deliberate lazified-jam climb up a spiral staircase. Maybe the sultriness of Isobel Sollenberger’s vox.

The Sons of Hercules – Get Lost – Review

January 1, 2000

These Chesterfield Kings soundalike freakazoid’s’ll make ya forget that there’re few too many bands who can really play frenzied R&B-styled rock’n’roll.

By A Thread – The Last of the Daydreams – Review

January 1, 2000

I hope The Last of the Daydreams isn’t “the last of the emo albums that has actual singing.” Yes, By A Thread actually tries in a genre that never does.

The Silencers – Cyclerify Sounds – Review

January 1, 2000

Fuzz-drenched Motown instrumental nobodies happily laid down to shiny digital CD mystery-metal by Mick Collins.

Cranium – Speed Metal Sentence – Review

January 1, 2000

Cranium continues in the German tradition of finely-tuned speed metal, yet they incorporate a sense of humor, sometimes dark and grisly, other times just goofy.

Core – The Hustle is On – Review

January 1, 2000

You get a more fluid flow with less stomp-pound and more rolling note flow; at times close to Mile’s Pangea/Agartha. Any doomishness is ghostlike.

Therion – Crowning of Atlantis – Review

January 1, 2000

It must be in Therion’s contract that they release thrown-together records with a couple new songs, a few covers, and few live cuts between glorious opuses.