Music Reviews

by Matt Mair Lowery

 |  No. 13

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Ask Them EP

Reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery

Guided By Voices' prolific Robert Pollard recorded this amazing, pseudonymous EP in a day at Cro-Magnon in Dayton, Ohio. Backed by Dayton's Tasties, Pollard tears through these six cuts old-school GBV...

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: The Other Side Is Mud CDEP

reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery

Repp recorded all but one track on this EP at Hush Records' head Chad Crouch's PowerMac home studio. One of the hallmarks of Hush is Crouch's ability to capture warm, acoustic, singer-songwriter...

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: DEFORMO

reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery

The only way I can adequately express my excitement over this record is to say that I haven't been so unexpectedly and pleasantly surprised by an album since I first heard Pavement's Slanted and...

 |  No. 10

: More There

reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery

The Sorts play a wide-range of mostly instrumental rock (vocals occasionally appear to present mantra-like lyrics) that at times sounds like Fugazi's vocal-less songs and at other points sounds like...

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: The Roaring Mechanism

reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery

After listening to The Roaring Mechanism I get the feeling that I would enjoy P.E.E.'s music a lot more if the band was less concerned with prog rock rhythm shifts and more willing to let the sense of...

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