Lollipop Magazine

The First Crush Compilation – Review

July 23, 2003

Reissue of the highly-influential ’97 comp with impossible-to-find tracks (that aren’t very good) by Jimmy Eat World, Mineral, At The Drive-In, and Pop Unknown.

Pop Unknown – The August Division – Review

November 15, 2002

Pop Unknown continue to get better with each release. The August Division, the band’s first full-length since leaving Deep Elm, is by far their finest hour.

Voice This Sound – Review

November 11, 2002

Pop Unknown guitarist Joel Ganucheau and his newly-established Inverse Records bring 22 tracks of (mostly) muscular guitar power pop from the Texas/Kansas sun.

Unreleased – No. 1 – Review

November 11, 2002

Yup, I’m still a sucker for Deep Elm’s goods. If this is the unreleased stuff, you can only imagine how great the full-lengths are.

Records for the Working Class Vol. 2 – Review

April 1, 2000

The first three bands on this 19-tracker will prove that Deep Elm is THE emo label. None of their bands plays the dreaded genre of music without originality.

Pop Unknown – If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra – Review

April 1, 2000

Dreamy Brit-pop/atmosphere in bed with traditional emo. Soothing tempos filled with emo guitar stylings, but salvaged from Bland City with written vocal lines.