Lollipop Magazine

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.

Tortoise – The Ex – In the Fishtank – Review

September 1, 1999

A fantastic collaboration between the US’s reigning kings of dreamy instrumental noodling and Holland’s legendary Socialist punk rock heroes.

The Ex – Tortoise – In the Fishtank – Review

September 1, 1999

On the surface, this match-up seems ill-advised at best. However, after a few listenings, the fruits of this collaboration sound quite compelling.

Guided By Voices – Do the Collapse – Review

September 1, 1999

The crime of “Teenage FBI,” and others on Do the Collapse, is taking a potentially good small idea and blowing it up into a textured, multi-tracked spectacle.

Treiops Treyfid – Reach the Explosion! – Review

January 1, 1999

Treiops Treyfid was in a band I’ve never heard of (Pitchblende), but has friends in bands I have heard of (Tsunami, Delta 72, Air Miami, New Wet Kojak).

Six Finger Satellite – Law of Ruins – Review

January 1, 1999

6FS uses drum machines, Moogs, Vocoders, and synth washes. But all the quirky technical trickery culminates in a sound that is the very essence of grunge.

Add N to X – On the Wires of our Nerves – Review

November 1, 1998

A fantastically sloppy piece of analog hardcore that is abrasive, dissonant, disorienting, and downright scary.

Will Oldham – Black/Rich Music – Review

November 1, 1998

What’s beautiful about this disc is the way Oldham breaks down three of these songs into their constituent parts.

Garth Brooks – Live in Central Park – Review

October 1, 1997

The city of New York eager to show the world that people can congregate in Central Park without being stabbed, raped, or otherwise violated.