Space Needle – Voyager – Review July 1, 1995 Comparable to the sedative of Spacemen 3 if they weren’t so experimental, suggestive of Front 242 with a distortion pedal, or a more introspective Stereolab.
Sonic Youth – Screaming Fields of Sonic Love – Review July 1, 1995 The compilation takes us backward in time, slowly stripping the varnish off their sound as we approach their ’82 debut on the last of 17 tracks.
Skiploader – Anxious, Restless – Review July 1, 1995 Sometimes they’re quick tempoed, sometimes they repeat the chorus over and over again, and sometimes they find that feedback works better than chords.
Skin Game – Review July 1, 1995 Looming music, like foreshadowing in a Hitchcock film. Dark, powerful, impressive.
Shelter – Mantra – Review July 1, 1995 From rap-to-melodic-core to all-out speedkills punk to whoa-whoa hardcore; Shelter does it beautifully.
Sheer Terror – Love Songs for the Unloved – Review July 1, 1995 Prong’s Tommy Victor produced this beast to sound like a Neanderthal’s mud fight. Clods of sound are lobbed and fast-balled at you.
Septic Flesh – Esoptron – Review July 1, 1995 The melodies of the guitars and keyboards add a particular atmosphere. Add the gruff and clean vocals of Spiros and you have the perfect melodrama.
Second Balcony Jump – Wired On Thought – Review July 1, 1995 Catchy rock with good grooves and sharp hooks. Gonna be great live; there’s a lot of energy in here.
Arsenals – Stomp – Review June 1, 1995 ad production, worse songs, and few hooks. There are plenty of unsigned ska bands who could “stomp” these guys into the ground.
Analogue – “Average Luck Charm” – Review June 1, 1995 It has the usual Lou Reed style mumbling, and would be fairly generic if not for some interesting stops and starts and surprise breaks.