Articles by Rob Bolton
Hooverphonic
Jackie Cane
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002
The Belgian trio of Geike Arnaert, Raymond Geerts and Alex Callier have returned with a pop concept album of sorts, namely a thematic tribu...
Primal Scream
Evil Heat
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002
Now 15 years into their musical odyssey, the consistently genre-bending Scottish collective are back with their seventh studio album. There...
Fosca
Diary Of An Antibody
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
Making '80s-style pop music isn't as easy as it might seem. The trick is to take the genre quite seriously, but to keep a tongue-in-cheek a...
Parker and Lily
Here Comes Winter
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
On their second album, Parker Noon and Lily Wolfe have again created something that sounds like the musical equivalent of a David Lynch mov...
Permer
Summerdays Attract The Pain
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
As one-half of the Swedish duo Waltz For Debbie, Martin Permer is no stranger to light-hearted electronic pop music. As his tastes and coll...
Sciflyer
Melt
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
After attracting some attention with their self-titled debut last year, California's Sciflyer have polished their sound and given us a bett...
Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers
California, Norfolk
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
This is a haunting and delicate album that features the work of No-Man's Tim Bowness and Alias Grace's Peter Chilvers. Bowness has collabor...
Elisabeth Butterfly/Various
Easy Paris
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Musically documenting the city of Paris on one disc is a seemingly impossible task, so Elisabeth Butterfly narrows the field a bit, and col...