Lollipop Magazine

Flight Of The Conchords – The Distant Future – Review

September 28, 2007

The NZ comedy duo has been doing well with their HBO show and appearances on late night TV. This is their first EP, and the medium doesn’t do them justice.

Patton Oswalt – Werewolves and Lollipops – Review

July 27, 2007

Reference points I might use: He compares Bush and Cheney to the Dukes of Hazzard in their ability to escape impossible predicaments with improbable ease.

The Shins – Wincing the Night Away – Review

January 1, 2007

They’re from Albuquerque, NM, write great melodies, yet aren’t afraid to experiment outside the indie pop rock realm.

The Album Leaf – Into the Blue Again – Review

November 10, 2006

“The Light” gradually layers simple, elegant, stately melodies atop one another until a beautiful mini-orchestra is virtually built.

Comets on Fire – Avatar – Review

November 10, 2006

While Avatar may not satisfy the hard psych freaks who worship earlier records, there’s room for both sides of the band’s personality in my collection.

The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes – Review

June 13, 2005

It ruptures the spleen to try and figure out just how something so kitschy, trite, regurgitated, unimaginative, calculatedly “overprecious” can be eaten up.

The Album Leaf – In A Safe Place – Review

January 24, 2005

Hired hands from Sigur Ros, Múm, and The Black Heart Procession help Jimmy Lavelle create his best work, and one of this year’s most devastating records.

Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral – Review

December 13, 2004

The band have a very firm grasp on what makes psychedelia work. They’re take what could’ve been incidental music and they’ve made it muscular and captivating.

The Helio Sequence – Love And Distance – Review

December 6, 2004

On top of Spiritualized’s sweeping grandiosity and The Flaming Lips’ chipper psychedelia, The Helio Sequence dumped a shitload of homemade electronics.

David Cross – It’s Not Funny – Review

August 30, 2004

On his second live stand-up disc (which he initially [jokingly] wanted to name “The New Fiona Apple CD”), Cross spews venom in all directions.