Lollipop Magazine

Codeseven – Division of Labor – Review

January 1, 2000

Recorded by Kurt Ballou, Codeseven draws on Far to Indecision, Sons Of Abraham to Converge. It’s hectic, multi-layered, but never forgets the melodic bridges.

Coal Chamber – Chamber Music – Review

January 1, 2000

A repetitious, sleepy, confused, weakly-produced record that’s too electronica and hip-hop. Plus the grooves are gone, and there are fewer hooks. Disappointing.

Burzum – Hlioskja – Review

January 1, 2000

An instrumental record – keyboard and computers – based on the myths surrounding the death of the Norse God, Wuotan. It’s long, dull, occasionally spooky.

Cloud Eleven – Review

January 1, 2000

Maybe I’m a neo-hippie wannabe, but I just can’t get enough of that warm, Merseybeat-era power pop. Cloud Eleven just can’t get enough either.

Automatic – Crossing Kill Creek – Review

January 1, 2000

With members having served time in units such as Guilt, The Enkindels, and By The Grace Of God, I was expecting Automatic to be a lot better.

Bunjie Jambo – Potty Karate – Review

January 1, 2000

Wonder what the tuneless, strained yelping of Suicidal Tendencies would sound like over ska music? Me neither. Part fun rap, part tongue-in-cheek crudeness.

At The Drive-In – Vaya – Review

January 1, 2000

Picking up where the the heart-wrenching aspects of their last effort left off, Vaya takes the band’s trademark weird vocal lines and amplifies them ten-fold.

Brother JT3 – Way to Go – Review

January 1, 2000

There are the fractured Brian Wilson bedroom pop songs, and there are the Terry Brooks spazzodelic guitar freakouts. There’s a pronounced Neil Young influence.

Brant Bjork – Jalamanta – Review

January 1, 2000

This is pretty low-key stuff, kinda like the place where soul and psychedelia would meet if they ever decided to.

Witchery – Dead, Hot and Ready – Review

January 1, 2000

Witchery is crazy, shot-glass thrash that only allows its professed love of mainstream stuff (Ozzy, Accept, Priest) to leach out under the utmost discipline.