Articles by Rob Bolton

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  The Autumns

  Le Carillon

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2001

  .A.'s the Autumns deliver a great new four-song EP, which showcases their expertise at mellow retro-pop. Growing up on an appetite of UK in...

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  Mr. Mixel Pixel

  Mappy Land

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  Mixel Pixel is none other than Rob Corradetti, who creates, as he describes it, "paranoid bedroom pop." Mr. Pixel is treading on some weird...

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  Travis

  The Invisible Band

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  The Scottish quartet's last album, The Man Who, managed to break them open to a much wider audience than the Britpop clique, and for good r...

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  Waltz For Debbie

  Gone and Out

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  Sweden's exporting of fine pop music continues with Waltz For Debbie, the work of Martin Penner and Annica Lundback, who formed the band in...

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  Arctic Film

  Arctic Film

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  I'd like to be able to tell you more about this CD, but it arrived at Exclaim! with no information other than an address and the bits and p...

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  Echo and the Bunnymen

  Flowers

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  Twenty years into their recording career, you would think Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant would have run out of steam. The Bunnymen have ha...

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  Melleny Melody and the Pop Machine

  Super Happy Darkness

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  Upon first glance, this album looks like it would be the project of some experimental Japanese pop outfit, however Melleny Melody is a Toro...

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  Cosmic Rough Riders

  Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  This is a fine example of Scottish guitar pop at its best. Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine couldn't be a more appropriate title for this collect...