Editorial Reviews
Starters Alternators
Music Review:
Music Review
The Missing Piece/Giant for a Day!
Music: Inolvidables RCA: 20 Grandes Exitos [Import]
Women in Lounge, Vol. 2 [Import]
Wipeout: The Ultimate Surf Album
Why Do You Love Me [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
Year of the Rat [CD-single] [Import]
Wagner: Lohengrin / Seiffert, Maggie, Polaski, Struckmann, Pape, Trekel, Barenboim
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Like no other band on the planet, Holland's experimental punk band the Ex demonstrate that punk rock can encompass artistic dualities and still swing. The 11 forceful, buzzing, in-your-face songs on Starters Alternators (produced by Steve Albini) are simultaneously political and personal, frenzied and beautiful, frenetic and tasteful. "Frenzy" and "Two Struck by the Moon" possess the taught, sharp delivery of early Wire, while "It's a Sin" sounds like Sonic Youth raised on Eastern European folk dirges. A simply tremendous record. --Mike McGonigal
Amazon.com
When the Ex first started in an Amsterdam squat back in '79, their brand of dissonant, energetic, politically charged music was refreshing, indeed. They were early peers of Sonic Youth, and their serrated guitar sound was just as innovative and inspirational to a whole generation of English and Continental no-wave noise exponents. Since then the Dutch anarchists have collaborated with improvisationists (Han Bennink, Tom Cora), hipsters (Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo), Belgian... read more