90s Album Reviews

The gentlemen from Memphis combine Southern rock, funk and a little Ska with touches of Dust Brothers production on Kent by Big Ass Truck

Featuring members of legendary bands like Quicksand, Helmet, Cro-Mags and Murphy's Law.

In its finest moments, Kent's album Isola recalls moments big and small from Pablo Honey and The Bends-era Radiohead

Combing angular guitar riffs with tricky drumming and challenging melodies, the final album by Pond is worth a revisit

Combining the long-form jams of The Verve with the attitude and pop-sensibility of Oasis.

We kick off season three with the 1997 album One Day At A Time by Symposium, a Britsh band that ignored Britpop for American pop punk.

EDD provides a unique sound with their male/female vocal combination and wild swings from concise jangle pop to sprawling jam ballads.

Magic & Madness, which features a collaboration with Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains, is a thick slab of hard rock from Circus of Power

One-album-and-done band that featured Van Halen-style riffs with Tom Waits-esque vocals.

In the late 90s they changed their name to Deckard, so how does Baby Chaos stack up?

Some describe Grandaddy's sound as lo-fi space-rock, drawing comparisons to The Flaming Lips, Brian Wilson and Pavement.

Deemed "The New Wave of New Wave" by NME back in the early 1990s,

Heatmiser's Mic City Sons shows off a different side to Elliott Smith, who carved out a well-respected but too short solo career

Fronted by now half of the duo known as the The Kills, this short-lived Jamie Hince led trio pound out some big noise and catchy melodies.

Tripping Daisy even managed to score their own version of an oddball hit single a la "She Don't Use Jelly" with the tune "I Got A Girl,"

One of the most influential albums of the 1990s, Diary. Credited as a primary instigator of what would later be known as emo,

Of all the albums we've reviewed so far, Dope Box might be the most diverse (or schizophrenic).

J. Mascis once described the album as his favorite of the major label years.

The debut solo album by founding Kyuss member and former Fu Manchu drummer Brant Bjork.

The gentlemen of UK's Send No Flowers are giving us their take on early '90s American alternative rock.

Revisit Bob Mould's short-lived run with with this post-Husker Du power trio.

We've often discussed the importance of a frontman who can do more than just sing in key, so what does Lucy's Fur Coat bring to the table?

Does the energetic and sometimes frantic mix of punk, power-pop, and indie rock come together on Superchunk's album No Pocky For Kitty?

The sound is reminiscent of Seattle's biggest and brightest but when you dig a little deeper, the band is definitely stretching.

One of the more prolific and perplexing bands of the last twenty years - Therapy? No, it's not a question, the name is Therapy?,

You are about to learn everything you ever wanted to know about the most under-appreciated band of the 90s.

Combining elements of Cheap Trick power pop and Jane's Addiction-esque guitar rock, Walt Mink can defy description at times.

Jesse Malin and company combine the snotty punk of the New York Dolls with power pop of Cheap Trick and '80s Sunset Strip bands.

Many people know Hansard from the movie Once and his other band The Swell Season, but Hansard cut his teeth with The Frames

Bob Pollard abandoned his trademark lo-fi sound to release a major label album, produced by the legendary Cars leader Ric Ocasek,

The early punk of The Stooges and MC5 is prevalent in the sound of Asteroid B-612: raw energy, loud guitars and a big chorus.

Since it's original release in 1998, TSoPtC has been graced with accolades and fawning retrospectives - but is it deserved?

A story of line-up changes, building recording studios, surviving a house fire, and scoring an unexpected local radio hit.

We check out the 1993 album Merge by For Love Not Lisa and Chip Midnight interviews guitarist Miles

They bounce between '60s psychedelia, Velvet Underground drone, Neil Young guitar spasms, electronic rhythms and even some bouncy Britpop.

Johnny Marr-influenced guitar lines and deceptively dark lyrics wrapped in pop melodies define the critically acclaimed sophomore release.