Kindercore Records – Lollipop Magazine

Paper Lions – The Symptom and the Sick – Review

September 11, 2003

These guys are all about Rites Of Spring and Embrace from the sound of it, and good for them. It’s about time people remember where the real punk rock’s at.

The Agenda! – Start the Panic – Review

June 20, 2003

Full-on Mod-rockin’ good times – garagey guitars jerking about, organ wailing, vocals howling – The Agenda! work up a sweat and miss some notes along the way.

Of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum – Review

January 10, 2003

Like most of the other Elephant 6 related stuff I’ve heard, this seem an attempt to write Smile, Brian Wilson’s ill-fated, unfinished follow-up to Pet Sounds.

Sleeping Flies – You Are Superior – Review

August 16, 2002

The Editor has told me that I can’t do ultra-short reviews, like “The Happy Mondays did this already, in 1991,” because it messes up the layout.

The Four Corners – Say You’re a Scream – Review

February 15, 2002

This mix of Southern-fried garage blues, sing-song female vox, and the get-down-on-yer-knees-and-worship-at-the-alter-of-fuzz moment takes ’em outta the box.

Of Montreal – Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse – Review

June 3, 2001

Ever wonder what it woulda been like to hear Sgt. Pepper’s… without knowing that The Beatles were mad geniuses and you’re kinda supposed to just go with them?