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...year-old New York City-based artist boasts an impressive résumé: his essays have been published in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, and Paper Magazine. He is also co-publisher of the magazine, A Gathering of the Tribes, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture’s first editor-at-large, and is working on the new webzine...
This is interesting stuff for those with rock'n roll aspiration, but I fear for its universal appeal. Scrawled in the liner notes is a boxed phrase: "NOTHIN TO SING BOUT." In a recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down...
...Zines, Raygun, Rolling Stone, Sassy (think about the Sassy of today running their now infamous "How To Masturbate" article. Just think about it, and admit no way it'd happen any more...
...this way, the album gains momentum. From "Took A Hammering" to "Evil Last Night," this disc progresses like a slow spiral into psychosis. However, like the best of Big Black and Naked Raygun, Ice is also triumphant and redemptive in the sheer force with which its pessimistic sentiments are lamented. If ever there were a good argument for the benefits of primal scream therapy, this trio of Chicago bands...
...points for humor, including liner notes presented in the form of a drinking game on the insert. The Ice Machine, however, is no joke. It is a true album, as distinguished from a lengthy and usually expensive collection of potential hit singles. Along with Big Black and Naked Raygun, Breaking Circus may cause a mass migration to the Midwest...