Lollipop Magazine

The Breeders – All Nerve – Review

December 6, 2018

Kim and Kelley Deal make difficult music. This is tough sledding at first – like much good and great music – but it’s interesting and at times, very good.

The Breeders – Mountain Battles – Review

August 1, 2008

It’s been six years and a run at sober living, but alternative titan Kim Deal has finally breathed life into a new Breeders release.

Blonde Redhead – 23 – Review

April 27, 2007

Reverbed-out piano chords, shimmering guitars, and haunting/floating vocals: It’s driving, heartbroken, mysterious, addictive, emotive, affecting, and exotic.

Mojave 3 – Spoon and Rafter – Review

November 26, 2003

Vulnerable folk-pop that owes as much to misty English mornings as sun-baked leather and spurs.

His Name Is Alive – Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth – Review

February 22, 2002

While a noodly/spacey rock project in the past, Warn Defever has made a full-blown jazzy r&b album with the help of Lovetta Pippen, a Harlem choir girl.

His Name Is Alive – Stars on ESP – Review

August 1, 1996

Stars on ESP is a wonderfully tedious and stupidly illuminating package of Sweet ‘n’ Low girlie vocals and surfing Beatles playing Fisher-Price equipment.

The Wolfgang Press – Funky Little Dreams – Review

September 1, 1995

A very interesting mish-mosh. In one sense, it’s a Nick Cave-ish moodgroove, but in another way altogether, there’s techno dance music beneath it all.

The Breeders – Last Splash – Review

February 1, 1994

15 songs, no two sounding alike. Each song has Deal’s ethereal vocals and a bassy bottom. Thick on the bottom, dissipating into airy, trance-like waves on top.