Sunday, January 1 1995
Sunday Flood: Advisory
Wow, I listened to Sunday Flood’s Advisory and I truly thought the world was going to end! I mean, really, could everything be, like, that…
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam/Aja
Steely Dan Aja(MCA) by Mark Zeltner steelydan-aja-royal.jpg First it was the Eagles. Then it was Fleetwood Mac. Now Steely Dan, the most enigmatic of seventies…
The Shiv: Short Order Crook
The combination of highly volatile hydrogen gas and a tiny electrical spark was all it took to create the massive explosion that brought the mighty…
Otis Spann: Best of the Vanguard Years
Unlike his label-mate and sometime collaborator, James Cotton, Otis Spann’s output does not stretch evenly into his later years. That may not be a fair…
Stryke: Staying In: A Journey Inwards
Florida-based techno DJ Greg “Stryke” Chin takes a break from the dance floor and gets mellow with Staying In, a blend of ambient, trip-hop, breaks,…
Sigur Rós: Agætis Byrjun
Critics don’t quite know what to say about Sigur Rós. Those who like them either go over the top with praise, calling them the best…
Savath and Savalas: Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey
I lived in Japan for a little over three years. My travels were always by train. I would sit in the cramped confines of one…
Saga: Face á Face
First things first: Face á Face isn’t a new offering from eighties rock band Saga. If you’re a fan of that Saga and you buy…
Splitsville, Repeater; The Minders, Hooray For Tuesday
The Minders Hooray For Tuesday(Elephant 6/spinART) by Sarah ZupkoPopMatters Editor & Publisher Two of the year’s more important pop releases come from labels that seldom…
Snowboy: Afro Cuban Jazz
The Sunday Sessions at the Hi-Hat in North London have a special place in English club culture. Every week some of the best dancers on…
Billy Swan: Like Elvis Used to Do
According to the liner notes, Swan has a songwriting (and producing) career that spans almost 30 years, including the country smash hits “I Can Help,”…
Janek Schaefer: Above Buildings
In 1998, London-based Janek Schaefer broke onto the electronic music scene after he was paired with Pan American on Fat Cat’s Splinter Series of Split…
Sorma: Mirage of the East
“Without a coordinator they took portable DAT recorders and went to the mountains of India, the prairie of Mongoli and villages in Bali. They made…
Elliott Smith: Figure 8
Mr. Smith was going to have a very tough time even matching the overall quality of his last release, XO, so I approached the listening…
Sense Field
Nobody plays emo anymore. The Promise Ring have given it up for pop songs. The Get Up Kids are too obsessed with Weezer and now…
Skindive: self-titled
This is one of those albums that you have to give props to just for trying some new things, while admitting that it fails to…
Stereo Total, Stereo Total
It’s getting ridiculous how much good music is emanating from the loungecore movement. What once had become a vapid and uninteresting genre has been re-invigorated…
Supersuckers, The Evil Powers of Rock ‘N’ Roll
In 1997, the Supersuckers shocked the world by abandoning their infamous high-octane metal/punk mix in favor of honest, stripped-down country with Must’ve Been High. Major…
Submission Hold: Waiting for Another Monkey to Throw the First Brick
Underground music has the unfortunate displeasure of existing in the post world. We now have post-punk, post-hardcore, we even have post-emo even though that “genre”…
Swell Maps: Sweep the Desert
Swell Maps released only two albums before disbanding in 1980, but the English group did not go unnoticed by a subsequent generation of musicians, particularly…
