Lollipop Magazine

CD Reviews – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Adjectives like weighty, consequential, formidable, semiligneous, and oss-eous don’t do this band justice. Nor do nouns like peplum, kirguiz, and quinquereme.

Fibroid Chitlin interview – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Fibroid Chitlin: An interview with Chthulu Rhys-Jones by TZ and Mike.

Helium – No Guitars – Review

July 1, 1997

No Guitars is a pretty darn fine pop, luminous enough to stay the granola-folk gag reflex the stated concept and butterfly cover art may arouse.

Galaxie 500 – Copenhagen – Review

July 1, 1997

A live record of Boston’s favorite inertia quartet, Galaxie 500, from a recording made by Danish National Radio in the misty days of 1990.

The Accidental Evolution of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Review

July 1, 1997

Not quite the Aesthetics of Rock for the ’90s as some have claimed (Joe Carducci’s Rock and the Pop Narcotic is) – it falls a little closer to Meltz’s Gulcher.

Edith Frost – Calling Over Time – Review

July 1, 1997

David “the Free-Range Squirrel” Grubbs and Jim “the Manipulator” O’Rourke! Slap the cuffs on ’em! Not too loud, they’ll make a song out of it!

Dutch Harbor Soundtrack – Review

July 1, 1997

With guys from gangs like the Vandermark 5, the Pinetop Seven, and the Palace Brothers, you’d best stand aside ’cause the improv can get pretty fuggin’ hairy.

God Is My Co-Pilot – The Best of… – Review

June 1, 1997

Queerpolitik is almost never as musically edgy and full-on abrasive as it is in the callused hands of God Is My Co-Pilot.

Farflung – The Raven That Ate the Moon – Review

June 1, 1997

I’m for asleep-at-the-controls-of-the-astral-plane acid meanderock, but when said music progresses about as compellingly as watching a dope seed sprout…

The Saint Soundtrack – Review

June 1, 1997

Toss it all together and voila! You’ve got yourself a million-selling soundtrack album!