Nik Rainey | Lollipop Magazine

The Aluminum Group – Plano – Review

June 1, 1999

So tastefully appointed, so artfully/craftily arranged, so very adult-sounding, that I expect most will have cleared the room by the end of this sentence.

Beck – Mutations – Review

April 1, 1999

Soaked in an ambience as warm as an old tube amp, Mutations knocks off seamless collages of organic source material with his trademark nonsense-as-wit.

Prolapse – The Italian Flag – Interview

April 1, 1999

An (email) interview with the Band

Sebadoh – The Sebadoh – Review

April 1, 1999

Fear not, sensitive males and the females who break up with them, Barlow’s still cranking out the most sincere nice-guy rock in the land.

VVV – Endless – Review

April 1, 1999

Vega’s “return to roots” album (if the misshapen, denuded weedlets that sprout from the cracks of Avenue A can be considered roots).

Jerry Seinfeld – I’m Telling You for the Last Time – Review

April 1, 1999

To my knowledge, no one’s ever noted this before, but to me it’s quite obvious: Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld were the Lennon/McCartney of comedy.

Fuck – Conduct – Review

April 1, 1999

Although Conduct is a somewhat more plugged-in affair than their previous disc, Pardon My French, the rockier moments lack the thrust of macho metallurgy.

The Sugarcubes – The Great Crossover Potential – Review

January 1, 1999

You know we were getting desperate for leper messiahs when we started looking for them in Reykjavik.

The High Llamas – Lollo Rosso (Remix EP) – Review

January 1, 1999

Obsessive fans of one or more of the artists should enjoy this agreeable exercise in pointlessness. The rest of us: wave politely, no flash photography.

The Charlatans U.K. – Melting Pot – Review

January 1, 1999

Ah, yes, a seventy-five-minute stroll down Hazy Recollection Lane. The stuff of Electric Lucozade Acid Tests U.K.-wide.