Lollipop Magazine

Placebo – Meds – Review

November 10, 2006

This is what Big Black would’ve sounded like if they’d stayed together. Both are epic and demented, heart warming and horrifying, organic and electronic.

Monster Magnet – Spine of God – Review

November 10, 2006

More song-based than 25 Tab, Spine of God is the perfect synthesis of Nuggets-style psych and Blue Cheer-style retard rock. A one-of-a-kind recording.

Monster Magnet – 25 Tab – Review

November 10, 2006

25 Tab is the second Monster Magnet album, easily the band’s most ambitious work, and a successful attempt to make the most psychedelic album of all time.

Melvins – (A) Senile Animal – Review

November 10, 2006

Really heavy rock; not metal, even as they absorbed that dynamic/language/attack as tots/post-tots as Black Flag rung their bell and called’m home to dinner.

Killzone – Liberation – Review

November 10, 2006

From its “working title” to its by-the-book FPS gameplay to its drab, washed-out battleground environments, Killzone feels like an incomplete brainstorm.

Sick Of It All – Death to Tyrants – Interview

November 10, 2006

An interview with vocalist Lou Koller

Black Label Society – The European Invasion Doom Troopin’ Live – Review

November 10, 2006

The sound roars & rumbles, and all manner of film tricks are used, but not to the point of distraction. The real fun comes with the backstage and road footage.

Delaware – Lost In The Beauty of Innocence – Review

November 10, 2006

Delaware skillfully blend melancholy and pop music together. They steal Keane, Placebo, and Snow Patrol blueprints and create melodic Britpop-inspired sound.

Covenant – Skyshaper – Review

November 10, 2006

Highly anticipated as the successor to Northern Light. While not produced by Rammstein producer Jacob Hellner, it shows a return to the roots of their sound.

Comets on Fire – Avatar – Review

November 10, 2006

While Avatar may not satisfy the hard psych freaks who worship earlier records, there’s room for both sides of the band’s personality in my collection.