Ipecac Recordings – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

Isis – Oceanic – Review

January 17, 2003

The quintet no longer rely on a straight-ahead “wall of noise,” instead submerging the listener in an ocean of effects, hence the title.

Tomahawk – Review

March 8, 2002

A beautifully-sculpted hard rock record rooted in the expansive non-arena ’70s/early-’80s rock, encompassing hard “new wave” era gunch.

Fantômas – The Director’s Cut – Review

February 22, 2002

For all the “chaos,” they’re pretty predictable. They play soft, you know it’s gonna shift to thrash. They play loud, you know they’re gonna shift into jazz.

eX-Girl – Back to the Mono Kero – Review

February 22, 2002

A left-of-center, high energy, melodic Naked City. Avant-guard vocal harmonies mixed with rock-trio sounds, albeit through a prism of serious weirdness.

DJ Eddie Def – Inner Scratch Demons – Review

February 22, 2002

He’s deliberately annoying, throwing in ice-pick scratches over tinny beats, and mixing in samples of screaming babys.

Melvins – The Crybaby – Review

September 1, 2000

This one’s the “duets” record. They thumbed through the date book and pulled the names of those whose jibs had the right cut.

Melvins – The Maggot – Review

September 1, 1999

Forget Limp Bizkit and Korn, kids, Melvins will make you feel like you’ve been listening to Janet Jackson all these years.