Lollipop Magazine

Foetus – Blow – Review

March 1, 2002

Thirlwell has given the songs off Flow to other electro dudes and dudettes, and the results are very pleasing.

Ruby – Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool – Review

February 22, 2002

Full-voiced, sensual female vocals over electronic-based grooves may sound like it’s been done, but Ruby was there first.

Foetus – Flow – Interview

February 22, 2002

An interview with Jim Thirlwell

David Thomas and Two Pale Boys – Surf’s Up! – Review

June 1, 2001

When Dave takes these two guys who are probably very pale back to Cleveland, he probably hasta keep a close eye on ’em so they don’t get lost in the snow.

Spring Heel Jack – Treader – Review

September 1, 2000

Ya got yer skitt’rin beats, yer bottom-heavy bass, yer tweaks’n’pulls of keys to add a little shape, but after that, whaddaya got?

Swans – Public Castration is a Good Idea – Review

January 1, 2000

A collection of recordings from a European tour in ’86, when the music was still more brutal than beautiful.

Madder Rose – Hello June Fool – Review

September 1, 1999

Ebbing and flowing like the tides of the moon, Hello June Fool takes us through the many splendors of honest pain.

The Church – Hologram of Baal – Review

April 1, 1999

The album’s called what? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! The album’s called what?!?

Baby Ray – Monkeypuzzle – Review

January 1, 1999

Minus a small quotient of fizzly ballads, this is energy pop with extra CO2 to shoot up your sinuses and make your eyes bulge.

Marc Almond – Stories of Johnny & Mother Fist – Review

September 1, 1998

An orgy of perversion, luxuriating in decadence, wine spilled on stained silk bedsheets, camping it up, turning every tear into a tsunami of overblown emotion.