Gob After a slew of full-length
Tha releases [4] last year and
The World According to numerous guest slots on
Gob soundtracks, Gob has hit
popular radio hard with “I
Hear You Calling” off of The
World According to Gob, a
“wfirst since Gob’s relatively
new signing to Vancouver
label Nettwerk after working
with cult label Mint Records
for a number of years before-
hand.

Fast paced and hard hitting,
Gob has been carried for the
most part by founding mem-
bers Theo and Tom. They
have scored numerous slots

Nettwerk

on major tours including the
ever-namebreaking Vans
Warped tours (98&99) as well
as Edgefest 99. They have
toured extensively throughout
the USA and Canada but still
make Vancouver their home.
As their first major produc-
tion under Nettwerk, Gob has
a bit of a different sound than
thy have had in the past. Neill
King was enlisted by Gob to
produce The World According
to Gob after “harassing
phone calls and witnessing
their live performance.” King
is best known for his previous
work producing for Green

Day, The Smiths, Joe Cocker,
and Age of Electric. This is
also the first time that Gob
has produced a CD in facili-
ties as high end as
Hipposonic Studios and The
Factory.

Gabe (drums) explains that
“the new songs actually bring
the band back to their roots -
their rock roots.” After having
developed a habit of playing
about a thousand miles an
hour on previous releases,
they have slowed down for
The World According To Gob.
“The idea was to write songs
that five or ten years down

the road, we’re going to love
playing as much as we do
now,’ Says Tom (Guitar, Vox).

This album is more in depth
that Gob has cared to get into
before. The band wanted to
make their music more pro-
gressive, and more interest-
ing. They wanted to show a
new side to the band and
they did but don’t worry Gob
lovers, Theo reassures us
that “there’s still the good old-
fashioned heavy guitars wail-
ing in your face!”

-Kevin Milos

After being named Best

PJ Harvey d

nhc oiled NE mar
Stories from the Sea has made an_ incredible
Island/Universal

impact on the indie scene,
now signed to _ Island
Records. This was after the
release of Dry.

Now, Polly Jean Harvey has
become a cult of her own. In
recent years she has decided

Southern Culture on the These guys have been

Skids around for a while and if you
cs = don’t recognize the name
Liquored Up and then you should have a listen
Lacquered Down to Liquored Up and
TVT/Universal Lacquered Down to join the

craze.
Formed in 1985 in North
Carolina, Southern Culture
on the Skids has since
released seven LP’s and
» 4 spent part of his childhood in
SpaCalifornia (that’s where the

to join forces with other musi-
cians to increase her musical
diversity. These include John
Parish (who co-produced
along with Flood and
Harvey), and former Captain
Beefheart sideman Eric Drew
Feildman and Joe Gore, “who
are known for their work with
Tom Waits.”

Harvey has also adopted a

surf influence comes from).
Rick Miller (lead guitar/vox)
is a “walking encyclopedia of
rock, country, soul, surf, and
swamp music.” The result is
an album which is “evenly
divided between rocketing
rhythm and _ blues-fueled
workouts and country and
western-tinged weepers.” In
short, you can’t put Southern
Culture on the Skids into any
particular genre. This was

somewhat “theatrical perfor-
mance” in recent concerts.
1995 saw her receive the
Rolling Stone and Spin Artist
of the Year award.

Stories from the City,
Stories from the Sea contains
twelve original tracks, all writ-
ten by PJ Harvey. Harvey's
mournful but relaistic view of
the world comes out in this

summed up again by the
band when they mentioned
that “sometimes the country
spills over into R&B the way
the gravy from chicken-fried
steak gets mixed up with the
mashed taters and collard
greens on a good, sloppy
plate of down-home southern
cooking.”

Despite influences from
what is no doubt considered
by the world to be “the most

CD in her classic style, but as
mentioned before. - the sound
isn’t the same. While this is
Harvey, this is “diversified
Harvey.” The new influences
are great to behold on this
mid paced but harsh revela-
tion album.

-Kevin Milos

uncivilized sounding region,”
Southern Culture on the
Skids has garnered a huge
following for its unique down-
to-earth style. Essentially
they have been revered as a
“walking, talking storybook of
Southern folkways.”

-Kevin Milos

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