Lex Marburger – Page 24 – Lollipop Magazine

Faithless – Reverence – Review

July 1, 1997

What appears to be a trip-hop album, with Tricky grooves and an ultra cool wordsmith, veers off into a modern pop love song with a slow funk groove.

Danielson Famile – Review

July 1, 1997

All members of the Smith family, ranging in age from 12 to 24. There’s a tinge of gospel, but mostly it’s sloppy acoustic folk-ish weirdness.

Critters Buggin’ – Host – Review

July 1, 1997

Primus meets Praxis. That is, Herb drums and Zorn sax with some Bootsy bass and Larry guitar, and some vocal samples thrown in for good measure.

Brand New Heavies – Shelter – Review

July 1, 1997

In an age of over-schooled music-college’d Clintonites and paint-by-numbers funk, The Brand New Heavies have held on to the last bastion of what it all means.

Foetus – Null/Void – Review

June 1, 1997

For those of you who know who J.G. Thirlwell is, all I need to say is that Null and Void are being re-released as a two-disc set.

Energy Records: 1997 – Review

June 1, 1997

Energy Records:1997 starts with one of my favorites, Hanzel und Gretyl, those outer space groove industrialists, giving us “Pleidian Agenda.”

The Great Unraveling – Review

June 1, 1997

From the bowels of Baltimore comes some of the better, and more twisted, post-whatever scene that sprung out of D.C. and Fugazi over a decade ago.

The Dandy Warhols – Come Down – Review

June 1, 1997

Their attitude of cyclical trance rock, copped from the Velvets and their ilk (‘natch) hasn’t slowed down.

The Bomboras – It Came from Pier 13 – Review

June 1, 1997

There’s a little more distortion in It Came From Pier 13!, and a slight soundtrack element that recalls all those beach party-gone-bad movies of the ’60s.

Liquor Lecture – A Public Service Announcement – Column

June 1, 1997

Drinking to excess is important at times (say, you just broke up with your sweetheart, lost your job, family reunions) but usually, it’s just not efficient.