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Electric Company – A Pert Cyclic Omen – Review

May 1, 1995

Expanding on John Cage’s “making the ugly sounds beautiful and the beautiful sounds ugly,” they loop and shape waveforms to make a foundations of music theory.

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Bait and Switch – Review

May 1, 1995

Loud, abrasive, sneery and noisy punk like the Germs and the Sonics. Great guitar work and vocals like the American punk scene of the late ’70s.

The Mother Hips – Back to the Grotto – Review

May 1, 1995

A Northern California quartet that pulls off an intelligent blend of retro-psychedelia and rough-hewn harmonies recorded on a CD that sounds warm and analog.

God Lives Underwater – Review

March 1, 1995

The digitized guitar sound plays catchy rhythms and the drumming blends both organic and electronic percussion into a pleasant hybrid.

Barkmarket – Lardroom – Review

March 1, 1995

This EP is what happens when you take schizophrenics and make them play loud music.

Lords of Acid – Voodoo U – Review

February 1, 1995

There are thunderous guitars mixed in with throbbing percussion and squishing and squelchy keyboard sounds. And spicy lyrics by Lady Galore.

Barkmarket – Lardroom – Review

February 1, 1995

It started a little less noisy and chaotic than 1993’s Gimmick, but that’s like saying a chainsaw is running smoothly.

Medicine – The Buried Life – Review

February 1, 1994

Tranquil, sugar-coated vocals skimming across ragged, squawking guitars to tinny dance beats.