Lollipop Magazine

Marc Almond & Foetus – Slut – Review

September 1, 1998

As it turns out, Big Jim Thirlwell’s knack for the grandiose dovetails quite well with Marc’s gutter operatics.

Kate St. John – Second Sight – Review

September 1, 1998

Swooping breathily into fainting phrases of lost love, Kate St. John evokes evenings steeped in cigarettes and absinthe, indulging in the French cabaret.

Foetus – Marc Almond – Slut – Review

September 1, 1998

As it turns out, Big Jim Thirlwell’s knack for the grandiose dovetails quite well with Marc’s gutter operatics on Slut.

Cul de Sac – The Epiphany of Glenn Jones – Interview

April 1, 1998

An interview with John Fahey

Foetus Symphony Orchestra – York – Review

September 1, 1997

The songs build from narratives at the beginning of each movement (narrator Lydia Lunch) into crashing climaxes that just set off another movement.

Rocket Fuel Is The Key – Consider it Contempt – Review

June 1, 1996

This band is dissonant, angry, hard, and tight – a “power trio” of nuclear capabilities, as it were. Yes, I say. Yes.

Foetus – Hole – Review

September 1, 1995

Using electronic percussion, sheet metal, and pop culture destruction, Jim Thirwell produced an album as humorous as it was self-destructively nihilistic.