Articles by Andrew Steenberg

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  These Arms Are Snakes

  This is Meant to Hurt You

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  These Arms are Snakes don’t really want to hurt you; they just want to get angry, which they do quite well on this five-song EP of meaty po...

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  Boy

  Boy

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  Rising choruses, catchy hooks and cheesy lyrics: it’s pretty tough to argue with a pop song. Judging by his self-titled debut, Stephen Noel...

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  Clearlake

  Almost the Same

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  It could have something to do with the class struggle, or a cultural predilection for camp, sappy songs, but the British have a knack for c...

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  Frog Eyes

  The Golden River

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  "Billy was a girl but he couldn’t tie his curls/The praxis breaks the angry bear and the lover in the woods lives in calm and care.” Hark,...

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  Singapore Sling

  The Curse of Singapore Sling

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  Singapore Sling’s output shares a lot with the band's island of birth, Iceland, which isn’t to say they belt out forceful electro ballads l...

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  The Stills

  Remberese

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  The Stills EP of three songs (one of which was recorded in a bedroom) and one remix is lazy, an insult to consumers and more than enough to...

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  Vanishing

  Songs for Psychotic Children

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  Goths. I hate ‘em. Not because of their linear fashion sense, nor for their bogus imprecations, but because the noir, gloom-weaving trolls...

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  Viva Voce

  Lovers, Lead the Way!

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  I suppose a husband and wife team such as Viva Voce require some perfunctory comparison to their de rigueur counterparts — the rocking ones...