Lollipop Magazine

The Postal Service – Give Up – Review

August 16, 2003

Lyrical daftness aside, Give Up delivers good times in electrobeatville, boogying like a 21st century electronica act hijacking an ’80s night club.

Lost Sounds – Rat’s Brains and Microchips – Review

August 16, 2003

Garagest crank/psych roots jerked up through the eye-rolling wise-ass “you promised the end of the world, but we’re still here” ’80s.

Leadfoot – We Drink For Free – Review

August 16, 2003

Having been burned by Leadfoot releases, I kept waiting for them to suck, but instead I got excellent tune after excellent tune of hard-rockin’ highway music.

The Forms – Icarus – Review

August 16, 2003

The Forms might be from NY, but they sound like they would fit in better amongst the Midwest kindred spirits of Riddle of Steel and Ring, Cicada.

Overkill – Killbox 13 – Review

August 16, 2003

Straight-ahead NJ metal with just the right amount of modern hard rock grooves; Blitz sneering like a rabid hound refusing to be put down.

Snuff – Disposable Income – Review

August 16, 2003

If only friends were as dependable as Snuff… Almost 20 years after first forming, you can still count on these guys to thrash up perfectly exquisite melodies.

Shai Hulud – That Within Blood Ill-Tempered – Review

August 16, 2003

Anger, darkness, frustration, and pain wrapped around some of the heaviest, most dynamic hardcore concoctions in some time.

Nada Surf – Let Go – Review

August 16, 2003

This ain’t the Nada Surf you remember from high school. The classic pop – slightly tilted toward indie Lemonheads-isms – is all PacNW understated elegance.

Morbid Angel – Blessed are the Sick – Review

August 16, 2003

Trudging doom, Mesopotamian allusions, and a slicker-than-spit-shine production bound together the band’s creepiest release.

Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness – Review

August 16, 2003

The debut that made them the hype band of the genre (along with Entombed’s Left Hand Path). Without a doubt the band’s rawest and fastest album.