90s Album Reviews

A group that started as a busking Irish folk band now combines high-energy pop rock and introspective tunes.

An odd mix of power pop, metal, trip-hop, brit pop and just about every other genre from the 90s.

On the edge of 80s glam metal and 90s alternative, Neverland's self-titled 1991 release isn't easy to pin down

In 1991, it wasn't Nevermind, Badmotorfinger, or Ten that won Spin magazine's album of a year, but Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque

A unique story and influential band on emo and post-hardcore bands.

The Cult's Ian Astbury nods to '60s psychedelia combined with modern keyboard-centric twists.

It combines a whole bunch of alternative rock royalty, like the Pixies, Pavement, Talking Heads and Gang of Four just to name a few.

Monster Magnet scored a hit single off Dopes To Infinity with Space Lord, but does the whole album live up to one song?

GVSB explores the dark and dirty side of alternative.

Known for the single "Fade Into You" from their sophomore release, She Hangs Brightly showcases the band in their dreamy shoegaze

Conjure memories of New Order and the Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo charts a confusing and confrontational path on Without You I'm Nothing

Calling it "the greatest American shoegaze record" puts some high expectations the Swirlies, but also raises a number of questions

Travis combine the brit-pop guitar bombast with the melodies and hooks of the Kinks, topped off with stellar Steve Lillywhite production

A diverse track list featuring sixteen covers of Depeche Mode songs by bands like Veruca Salt, the Smashing Pumpkins, Dishwalla, and more

On the surface, the five-piece Moist is a slightly alternative and mainstream radio-friendly band - but dig deeper and darker sound emerges

Clarity represents musical highpoint for not only emo, but rock music at the end of the 20th Century.

Judgement Night features a roster packed with rock bands and hip-hop artists collaborating in a way only the 1990s could produce

As fans of Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR and Screamadelica can tell you, Give Out... is a hard one to figure out.

Many of the hair/glam rock and metal bands of the 1980s made attempts to update their sound in the 90s but is this one successful?

1994's Crank marks the Hoodoo's attempt at injecting some alternative rock sound into their trademark power pop.

We revisit the full-length from Eric's Trip, the lo-fi debut from this Canadian indie rock outfit released on Sub Pop

We've got some good old fashioned disagreement! Unique and original, or familiar and predictable?

A self-titled debut album by I Love You that shifts between Jane's Addiction-like alternative funk and Guns N' Roses riffing

Following this record, Our Lady Peace found greater success with the second release Clumsy, but is Naveed actually the better album?

Sportsguitar is a challenge upon first listen. Hidden beneath layers of guitar noise are pop melodies, some deeper than others.

Features bands like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but curveballs like Paul Westerberg and The Lovemongers add some unexpected highlights.

It bounces between ten-plus-minute space rock experiments to concise and bittersweet harmonized morose pop.

Hidden inside these dissonant and jagged tunes are melodic hooks that would make Matthew Sweet swoon.

Combining disjointed rhythms and razor sharp guitar riffs, aMiniature are in the same stratosphere as the recently reviewed Knapsack.

Influenced by early 1980s Crossover Thrash music and inspired by 90s grunge.

Musical supergroups often can't live up to the sum of their parts, but with members of Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees, does Mad Season?

ndie and alternative aren't specific enough to describe Radial Spangle's music: neo-experimental-space-psychedelic-lo-fi-rock?

Facebook love, or is disagreement on the horizon?

Combining bar-band like guitar crunch with clever lyrics, FFBB shows of the Arizona band's musical range.

Written and recorded after the departure of co-founding lead singer and songwriter Mark Olsen, it rests on the shoulders of Gary Louris.

For the 1996 album Dust, the Screaming Trees recruited producer George Drakoulias and keyboardist Benmont Tench for their swan song