Articles by Andrew Steenberg

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  Adult.

  Anxiety Always

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Adult seem to be growing up angry on Anxiety Always, a sharp contrast to the Detroit duo’s last LP Resuscitation, which at times sounded li...

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  Freescha

  What's Come Inside of You

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  When you open a disc’s liner notes and find big-breasted, day-glow maidens and a unicorn catching a rainbow laser beam in the ass you know...

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  A.R.E. Weapons

  A.R.E. Weapons

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  On their eponymous debut album, A.R.E. Weapons peek inside a 13-year-old’s sleepy head and pull out his most horrific nightmares and lasciv...

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  Kings of Leon

  Holy Roller Novocaine

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  The story of Kings of Leon is almost too rich. A band of three brothers sired by a Pentecostal minister and a cousin with the same surname,...

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  Liam Lynch

  Fake Songs

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  The title of Liam Lynch's new disc may read like a joke, but on a deeper level, it's actually an allegory of the derivation of music and ho...

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  The Notwist

  Neon Golden

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Neon Golden is so beautiful, so perfect from top to bottom, that all I keep coming up with are paradoxes. Detailed simplicity, complex mini...

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  Prids

  Love Zero

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  There's been a whole lot of stealing from My Bloody Valentine, the Cure and Joy Division lately and even though the sound is getting trite,...

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  Vue

  Babies are for Petting

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  San Francisco’s Vue hitch a ride on the region’s psych-rock revival with Babies are for Petting, but unlike their Bay Area brethren (BRMC,...