The Frogs – Bananimals – Review

January 1, 2000

This is pedophiliac fetish cult pop with its face in the crotch of social mores. Invite dirty old man boy love into your stereo with The Frogs.

The Go – Watcha Doin’ – Review

January 1, 2000

The motions the Go goes thru are pretty good ones: Semi-psychedelic, sometimes noisy guitars, fuzz, tambouriny percussion, echoy vocals, decent songs…

Tricky Woo – Sometimes I Cry – Review

January 1, 2000

Pealing screams, extendo wah wah run-thrus, drum breakdowns, shameless forays into psychedelia, “Alllllrightssss!” like Jon Spencer, and nonsensical lyrics.

Tram – Heavy Black Frame – Review

January 1, 2000

On Heavy Black Frame, London-based Tram transcend the often-tired mope rock vocabulary to compose one of the most stirring and melancholy records of the year.

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.

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.

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.

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