Lollipop Magazine

Mando Diao – Hurricane Bar – Review

November 11, 2005

Super-catchy songs with all of the little touches you’ve come to expect with a nice, high-energy presentation that stops short of pop-punk territory.

Erasure – Nightbird – Review

June 13, 2005

Their first album in seven years, Erasure have never been the critic’s darling that their contemporaries – Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode – are.

Goldfrapp – Wonderful Electric Live in London – Review

June 13, 2005

The award for the most mystically sensual, futuristically seductive, cryptically erotic electronica/trip hop act goes – hands down – to Goldfrapp.

T. Raumschmiere – Blitzkrieg Pop – Review

May 12, 2005

Ya wouldn’t dare name yer album this without some head-bobbing yahoo on there. And T. Raumschmiere is no dummy. Not a showoff, not a wanker, he’s a madman.

Diamanda Galas – La Serpenta Canta – Review

February 7, 2005

A collection of live dates with her and a piano (and an occasional delay pedal), and she’s doing tunes by John Lee Hooker, Hank Williams, Screamin Jay Hawkins, and Ornette Coleman.

Boyd Rice/NON – Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 – Present – Review

January 10, 2005

Boyd Rice has been destroying music since the mid-’70s. Like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, he used homebuilt or modified instruments to create sounds.

Einsturzende Neubauten – Perpetuum Mobile – Review

June 14, 2004

Like on Silence is Sexy, the perceived violence found in earlier recordings is almost completely gone. In its place is a restless peace and a cold confidence.

Paul Van Dyk- Reflections – Review

March 1, 2004

Paul Van Dyk, close on the coattails of Paul Oakenfold, is the second best DJ. There, I’ve said it.

T. Raumschmiere – Radio Blackout – Review

March 1, 2004

Radio Blackout uses crunchy basslines and breakbeats to hammer out crude melodies and rhythms that seem to jump out of the stereo.

Laibach – Wat – Review

February 23, 2004

Laibach basically invented the sound of Rammstein and KMFDM. They continue their 20 year brand of opera/EBM/industrial rock performed in Slovenian and English.