Dec 21, 2000 Music New Lands by Flying Saucer Attack (Review) Flying Saucer Attack takes elements of traditional shoegazing and turns it into stargazing.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Mirror by Flying Saucer Attack (Review) Mirror is at its best when Pearce is content to let the guitars chime.
Dec 21, 2000 Music First Fruits by Eggman (Review) Releasing a solo album while being affiliated with one of the great pop bands required some guts.
Dec 21, 2000 Music When Your Heartstrings Break by Beulah (Review) Unfortunately, the best parts of this album are the flourishes.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Polydistortion by Gusgus (Review) Throws a wrench into the idea that 4AD will forever be consigned to releasing ethereal female-fronted groups.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Songs of Praise by African Head Charge (Review) African Head Charge seems to specialize in the super-ethereal aspects of dub.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Fear of Fours by Lamb (Review) Lamb’s music exudes a sense of playfulness and lustiness no other trip-hop group has.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Soundpool by Dif Juz (Review) This is a reissue of two records, Huremics and Vibrating Air, by one of the 4AD record label’s most criminally unheard of bands.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Jesus by Dance House Children (Review) Dance House Children sounds exactly like what you’d expect a pre-Joy Electric project to sound like.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Blush by Bows (Review) You’ve never heard trip-hop done quite like this, and you want to share it with some friends who are hip to the genre.
Dec 21, 2000 Music The Glinting Spade by In Gowan Ring (Review) Even the trippiest, shroomiest sections of the album have a warmth and humanity about them.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Cumulus Mood Twang by Flowchart (Review) Not many albums bring a tear to my eye because the music is so joyful and exultant (there’s that word again), but this one did.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Bon Voyage by Bon Voyage (Review) The current album has turned out to be no other than a gorgeous pop album full of catchy melodies and choruses.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Straw by Mental Destruction (Review) Stirring in its honest majesty, terrifying in its cold, stark savagery.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Fold Zandura by Fold Zandura (Review) I could easily see Fold Zandura blowing away many of the “established” Christian “modern rock” acts.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Sleep in a Synchotron by Color Filter (Review) Super slick, super sweet drum and bass that sounds like it was recorded in someone’s living room.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Beheaded by Bedhead (Review) I had to work late and this album was a perfect companion to the loneliness I felt in the office.
Dec 21, 2000 Music If You’re Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian (Review) Listening to this band, you wish they get everything they long for, because if they do, that means there’s a small chance you might get it too.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Windowlicker by Aphex Twin (Review) Just sit back, take everything with a grain of salt, and hope that you’ll be able to make music like this someday.
Dec 21, 2000 Music LP5 by Autechre (Review) The sounds that Autechre conjure out of their computers will probably be the closest audio approximation we’ll ever have of the inner workings of the atom.