Lollipop Magazine

Robots In Disguise – Review

September 20, 2004

A female, electro duet: Nothing more and nothing less. They sing through megaphones, dance like playful maniacs, and distribute D.I.Y. art.

Komeda – Kokomemedada – Review

September 13, 2004

Komeda indulges in clean and pretty electro-pop that just screams of their Scandinavian heritage. Think The Postal Service fronted by a puppy.

Les Savy Fav – Inches – Review

September 6, 2004

You can distinctly hear Les Savy Fav’s tight and intelligent brand of art-rock devolve into their raw, noise-obsessed roots.

Statistics – Leave Your Name – Review

July 26, 2004

Beautifully arranged piano and guitar interplay blended with the bittersweet vocals create a wholly breathtaking and engrossing album that I fell in love with.

The Start – Death Via Satellite – Review

June 21, 2004

The Gossip without the blues riffs, The Faint without the electro/Goth overtones, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy without the politics.

Tenki – View of Orbiting Man – Review

June 21, 2004

Chicago’s Tenki blends the basic clean guitar sound with horns, keyboards, violas, banjos, and even a koto to create a sound reminiscent of Built to Spill.

Boyskout – School of Etiquette – Review

June 7, 2004

Blends a fairly basic New Wave sound with an eerie darkness, which yields an album that is more Goth/synth than Joy Division could ever hope to produce.

The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone – Review

March 29, 2004

Fans of cute, nerdy, experimental low-fi indie-pop music will love this Montreal threesome. The Unicorns offer up unusual songs with a playful and innocent undertone.

Dedspace – Constants in Breaking – Split – Review

March 15, 2004

What we have here is a split EP by two local bands who are not really bringing anything innovative or interesting to the table.

Constants in Breaking – Dedspace – Split – Review

March 15, 2004

Dedspace does a lot of the same things that Constants does, but with a much softer edge. Absent are the screaming accompaniment and aggressive distortion, and in their stead are dark, passionate wails and squealing guitars