The Latest Music Reviews by Jabberwocky

David Holmes
Let's Get Killed (A&M)

      The combination of fullbodied country riffs with melodic feedback and soaring funk-laced beats makes this one of the best albums I've ever heard. The beautiful, fuzz-filled "For Forgiveness" is a song with poetic lyrics in the form of a apology letter to an old girlfriend. Some of the songs start with a hard, fast beat and then get slower in the middle only to speed up again. "Feeling Like A Million Dollars" is probably the best song on the album and contains a wild, country-rock guitar solo that will leave your heart beating. This album is certainly worth buying.

Psychedelic Furs
Should God Forget: A Retrospective (Columbia)
      At first this album was hard to listen to. But after a while I began to get into it. The songs range from translucent light sounds to haunting thrash rock and even some reggae-tinged uplifting jams. Songs like "I'm Broken for You" are sweet love ballads with floating harmonics but the hard rock song "I'll Never Lose My Path" combines hard thrash rock with soulful lyrics. The raw moody vocals are chilling and sometimes a little overbearing. At one point listening to this album I had the urge to run over my Sony walkman with a cement truck.

Timberland and Magoo
Welcome To Our World (Atlantic)
      Surf pop at its best! The twangy surf-guitar riffs of this album will have you either dancing or planning a vacation to the beach. Certainly the best song on this album would have to be "Beach Madness", a five minute surf jam with loud, blistering drums and obnoxious but catchy guitar hooks. The only real down-point of this album would be the distorted, stinging vocals which make you feel like you just fell down a flight of stairs. Luckily there are only a few songs with any singing. Despite this it was a really good album.

Rakim
The 18th Letter - Book of Life (Universal)

The thundering guitar riffs and booze-soaked lyrics of this album give it a weird, almost scary, art-folk flavor. If you put the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and David Bowie into a blender and turned it onto Cream you would get the songs on this album. Although the lyrics can put some long needed spiritual-sense into you, the songs can get long and boring. The best song on this album would have to be "The Long Trail Down" because of the Jimi Hendrix sample.

Zine Review: Sudden Illness - first issue
If you can find a copy of this, read it. It's nice to see a punk zine come out of this town that I don't totally hate. It includes ten things to do when you're bored in downtown Columbia, Scrotum Self repair - an article copied from somewhere that I had seen before - and a handwritten story about doing drugs and fucking on the highway...
It's kinda sloppy but definitely worth at least a quick browse. The constant cynicism and the frequent lack of intelligence is rather disappointing, but I think these guys are actually smart and just want to act that way for some reason. If nothing else, the content of this zine and the people who put it out are 100 times more intelligent and 1,000 times more punk than Strait From Suburbia or Disorder and Disarray. The next issue should be interesting. Check it out.
Reviewed by Abe Haim (Diablito)

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