Chris Adams – Page 5 – Lollipop Magazine

Eels – Beautiful Freak – Review

October 1, 1996

It kicks off with a suite of five pretty impressive songs. The stop-start rhythms and kitchen-sink arrangement of “Novocaine For the Soul” are entertaining.

Eat to the Beat – Fiction

October 1, 1996

There’s a shitload of loners, losers, perverts, and weirdos who need to know which music will spice up the idiosyncratic flavors of their particular sex lives.

Donna Reed’s Dinner Party – Review

May 1, 1996

Intended for mature young women to play as they served dinner in their fabulous New York apartments, until sneaking off to fuck on the guests’ coats.

Dick Van Dyke’s Dance Party – Review

May 1, 1996

Intended to be the kinda album a swingin’ bachelor (with a good education, a solid day job and well-polished shoes) would throw on the hi-fi on Friday nights.

Veldt – Universe Boat – Review

May 1, 1996

Remember “Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone?” Veldt seem dead set on recreating the same kind of wonderbread euro-alterna-soul that made my dentist a rich man.

Neutral Milk Hotel – On Every Island – Review

May 1, 1996

Their acoustic/electric, fuzz-heavy, ramshackle sound combined with a great sense of melody recalls none other than the mighty Flaming Lips.

Mauthmann – The Terror of Bojangles Maximus – Review

May 1, 1996

The concept is supplemented by serious no-frills garage pop/rock, managing to avoid any conceptual art-wank pretense through aggression and solid songwriting.

Richard Bone – X Considers Y – Review

April 1, 1996

Hey, this guy’s voice sounds just like David J. from Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets! Wow, this guy is just as pretentious as David J. from Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets!

Chune – Big Hat, No Cattle – Review

March 1, 1996

They may have drawn direct inspiration from Thurston and Co., but there’s no blueprint for the kind of dynamics and intensity that Chune have to offer.

The Cocktails – Review

March 1, 1996

Others bands have explored this realm, but none so completely. In their world, it never stops raining. And, some days, you just don’t want an umbrella.