Lollipop Magazine

Human Television – All Songs Written By – Review

January 10, 2005

Human Television have been compared to The Wedding Present a lot for good reason. Jangly guitars, hop-along tempos, noodle-y melodies, rough-but-catchy vocals.

Freezepop – Fancy Ultra-Fresh – Review

December 29, 2004

Singer Liz Enthusiasm calls it as she sees it while ticky-tocky blips and bomps back her up like the “demo” button on that old mini keyboard.

Adem – Homesongs – Review

December 29, 2004

Hushed, velvety confessions draped atop lonesome acoustic pluckings, their only friend the bewildering prairie that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Bill Janovitz – Crown Victoria – Fireworks On TV – Review

December 27, 2004

The hooks make this a triumphant return to his roots. The man has wonderful pop sensibilities, and one only need listen to “Radio” once to appreciate them.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus – Review

December 27, 2004

Cave’s love of Cohen, Waits, and Cash is sublimated into an intoxicatingly passionate collection of songs that bears no connections to their forefathers.

Nathaniel Mayer – I Just Want to Be Held – Review

December 21, 2004

You don’t have to be a fanatic or a geek to appreciate the raw beauty of Mayer’s Fortune recordings, and you don’t have to be one to love this album, either.

Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous – Review

December 20, 2004

Jenny Lewis’ enchanting voice floats over stories of love and loss, then seamlessly stab you through the heart with unexpected burst of expletives and wails.

Maritime – Glass Floor – Review

December 20, 2004

Ex-The Promise Ring’s Davey von Bohlen and Dan Didier have teamed up with ex-The Dismemberment Plan bassist Eric Axelson for Maritime.

John Frusciante – The Will to Death – Review

December 20, 2004

The kind of songs you’d sing to yourself when everything around you is falling apart. The kind of album you and a lifelong friend dream of making together.

Gold Cash Gold – Paradise Pawned Vol. 1 – Review

December 15, 2004

Rock and roll writ large via ’70s scarf wearers Steve Tyler, the Dolls, as those fellas came to grips with the Stones, Faces, Free, early Rod Stewart.