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Ida, [I Know About You], Simple MachinesFluff up the pillows and tuck your guitar in for the night, and don't leave until you finish the neverending story of how someday, if the clouds cover the sky just right, and hungry birds rub the wind with their wings into a particular, invisible shape, then amazingly beautiful sounds will gallop out of your string-covered hole. If half-yawned questions persist, then tell of Daniel and Elizabeth, and their slow sculptures of melancholy and meaning, harmonic stripes in the middle of the road converging with the far off hills, the newly-born stars. Guaranteed to produce sleepy bliss.
Ida
532 LaGuardia Place #324
New York, NY 10012Simple Machines
PO Box 10290
Arlington, VA 22210-1290
simplemail@aol.com[rating] - [7] [4] [4] [5] [4]
[talent]
[energy]
[risk]
Incredible Force of Junior, [Blue Cheer/Driving in Your Car] (7"), UpBART trains detrack, devouring thousands of cellular phone users with greedy third rails. I bounce over the wreckage with my pogo-stick, break into the airport, and pilot the fastest plane existent to Up central, so that I can bask in the unmediated sonic superiority. The Incredible Force of Junior is the that which keeps candy bars from melting in your pocket, the music hidden in the woman who tells the telephone-time, in modem snow. Everything being even, IFJr. deserves its own cable channel, pinball should be an Olympic event, and manual pencil sharpener piercings the new fashion statement.
Up Records
PO Box 21328
Seattle, WA 98111-3328
up@subpop.com
http://www.subpop.com/up[rating] - [6] [6] [4] [5] [5]
[talent]
Incredible Force of Junior, [Let The World Fall Apart], UpHit the fire escape running, IFJr sets all stereo equipment ablaze with fuzzy-buzzy power pop-rock Chunky bars. Frozen Charleston Chew sword fights spill out into traffic, and bus-drivers make all rides free, as long as someone plays this album over the air-raid speakers. "Five-eight" rules with a mighty yet powerful fist, as does all of its sonic siblings, thanks to Susan, Chris and Steve - so many bouncy notes, so little time! "I ain't got no advice so shake me down" is the operative mantra as I turn my mattress into launching pad, aerial Up appreciation.
Up Records
PO Box 21328
Seattle, WA 98111-3328
up@subpop.com
http://www.subpop.com/up[rating] - [7] [6] [6] [5] [5]
Individual Fruit Pie, [Release Me], Dot Dot Dash5 songs, 17 minutes, and when the world ends you won't give this much thought. It's stomp petal water faucet music, soothing with no unnecessary choke/cough spawning bits. Guitar-plus low-voiced march through the forest of our discontent, and before the scouts get too bored you can point out the way the birds chirp so depressantly, or how the squirrels have taken up acorn field hockey. Morrissey for the Wal-Mart set, and if wasn't for the passible musicianship I'd get a ticket for the slow boat to Antarctica, count stars, and befriend lonely penguins. Melodic anti-acetaminophen.
Individual Fruit Pie
Box 26
156 E. 2nd St.
Ney York, NY 10009[rating] - [4] [4] [3] [4] [3]
[attitude]
The Inklings, [Room On Venus], Living RoomTrouble on Earth 27! Unnatural experiments with drinking straws open a rift in space/time, causing upset stomachs and weird musical exchanges. What here approaches crap, there is celebrated for its banality. Both NutraSweet and the Inklings are curious items of export that make me appreciate cavities for their aesthetic qualities - meaning that I hope there's room on Venus for one more bland band; this Earth is full-to-bursting, thanks. When normal is alternative, exceptional is delegated to $1 clearance bins and singers with the look, but without the glow. 10,001 Maniacs put sugar in the sea salt shakers.
Living Room Records
PO Box 725302
Atlanta, GA 31139-9302
inklie@aol.com[rating] - [3] [4] [4] [3] [2]
[innovation]
Iris, [After School Special], Bubble CoreSonic tooth extraction, and rotary phones are hanging from 8-Track tape, extruded. Hide-and-go-tag-team-wrestling over popsicle stick dollhouses, and Tarquin always trades his pencil-play winnings for scrap metal. Or, take steam-dried milk cartons and stack them high enough that when things go towering inferno all over, pigeons can dance on our shallow graves, compressing the fashionable baseball caps and platform shoes in their glee. Finally - more room to fly, and all the shit targets are stationary. Then flower beds will be the new rage, and parking meters will be converted to seed dispensers.
Bubble Core Records
250 Milton Rd.
Rye, NY 10580
tarquinjr@aol.com[rating] - [6] [5] [4] [5] [5]
Irving Klaw Trio, [Irving Klaw Trio], Imp5 - count them! - finely chaotic musicians from Olympia that practice jazz-punk calisthenics most people find irresistible. Much like Death Valley surf music, only with more sax and xylo and no sun-block whatsoever. Little bits of the moon co-conspiring with cosmic dust to make vending machines never accept bills with the slightest folds, so that more funds will be available to partake in this advanced algebraic recording. If you introduce bubble bath solution to our nation's water supply, and plastic wrap all the stop signs, then you won't even come close to this Irving Klaw hypno-improv obelisk.
Irving Klaw Trio
PO Box 1832
Olympia, WA 98502(for vinyl)
Imp
PO Box 34
Portland, OR 97207(for CD)
Silly Bird
PO Box 14604
Berkeley, CA 94712[rating] - [7] [6] [6] [7] [6]
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