Indie/Alternative Review – Page 259

Spacemen 3 – Performance – Review

February 1, 1996

The extended version of their ’88 live opus, recorded in Amsterdam in front of what sounds like an audience of three. Swallow this. It’ll make you fly.

Sibera – Damage – Review

February 1, 1996

Spacy liquid pop with enough rough edges and hooks for your ear to get a toehold, textured and ambient but with enough complexity to keep your attention.

Replicants – Review

February 1, 1996

Replicants are part Tool, part Failure, and part Eye in Triangle. Their product is every great song you ever heard sent through the blender of time.

Nick Lowe – Party of One – Review

February 1, 1996

This is the Nick Lowe country album. He does it better than most of the country crooners today; and he did it long before anyone ever heard of Garth Brooks.

MRC – META/Morph – Review

February 1, 1996

Soulful vocals, pseudo-horns and funk rock paces give this song a Fishbone/Faith No More feel, with a touch of Zappa thrown in gratuitously.

Xanax 25 – Denial Fest – Review

February 1, 1996

Heavy, moody pop with crashing guitars. Jaik Miller’s vocals on “Scary Dream Fade” are so overwhelmingly raw they raised the hair on the back of my neck.

Julian Cope – 20 Mothers – Review

February 1, 1996

In the late ’70s, he was the erratic, acid-gobbling genius who piloted the Teardrop Explodes to worldwide stardom, rockstar excess, and subsequent implosion.

Urusei Yatsura – “Siamese” – Review

February 1, 1996

From the cover and band name, I was expecting either Japanese noise or Japanese girlpunk. What we have instead is Britnoisepop that bounces and bashes.

Underflowers – Review

February 1, 1996

Underflowers lean toward the subtle, swaying strains of Dead Can Dance with the rich, male voice of J. Orazi contrasting the gossamer vocals of Mia Chesta.

Mile Wide – Review

February 1, 1996

An organic entity at the edge of sleep, twisting and shaping sounds like a grittier Can, strange shapes floating in the distance.