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![Local Review: Quant – Crossies Count](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/11/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Quant – Crossies Count
Quant Crossies Count Quant = (Modest Mouse + Jane’s Addiction)valium Quant set out to make the most subtly-smart album ever and almost succeeded—or maybe I’m just not smart (patient) enough. The songs are all well and good with intricate instrumentation and thoughtful lyrics but they just go on and on and on—listening to this
![Local Review: Summerhead – Liberation](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/11/Summerhead.jpg)
Local Review: Summerhead – Liberation
Summerhead Liberation Eden’s Watchtower Summerhead = German EBM + A Different Drum Records Mostly instrumental Summerhead ranges from new-age electronica to synthpop to hip-hop to DJ dub trance to reggae, Enya to Natalie Merchant to Massive Attack. The coherency lies in the smooth production, the peaceful, slow beat structures that are one web holding
![Local Review: Various Artists – Sound vs. Silence Vol. 1](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/11/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Various Artists – Sound vs. Silence Vol. 1
Various Artists Sound vs. Silence Vol. 1 S vs. S = Her Candane + Still Breaking Hearts + Goodbye Blue Monday + Joel Pack + Clarity Process + Still Life Projector + The Hifi Massacre + Danny Vesper Even if Sound vs. Silence doesn’t showcase the best bands in SLC, they have no lack of talent
![Local Review: Victrola – 5-Song demo](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/11/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Victrola – 5-Song demo
Victrola 5-Song demo Victrola = Mission of Burma + Pinback SLUG got 5-Song Demo by Victrola for a Sabbathon demo in June but it’s so hot I took the liberty of reviewing it anyway. Down-home original indie rock like Dinosaur Jr. blends with a pinch of modern indie-rock jangle like Trail of the Dead, Pinback,
![Local Review: Vomit – Self-titled](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/11/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Vomit – Self-titled
Vomit Self-titled Vomit = Pantera + Eyehategod + Napalm Death I hate Pantera. Ogden’s Vomit are repeatedly compared to Pantera—but Vomit BLOW them AWAY no contest!!! The music is very crunchy and heavy, and tuned down much lower so they’re more on par with Napalm Death or Eyehategod. This band is also fucking brutal
![Local Review: DulceSky – Media-Luna/Half-Moon](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/10/DULCESKY_MEDIA-LUNAHALF-MOON-photo-feature.jpg)
Local Review: DulceSky – Media-Luna/Half-Moon
DulceSky Media-Luna/Half-Moon Eden’s Watchtower DulceSky = The Cure + Violet Run – Nirvana worship Once again, DulceSky have delivered a glazed-honey concoction of dense, multi-layered goth-tinged shoegazer; a smooth, dark glide down a river with no reflection, like Ophelia’s ride to her final resting place. The female harmonies are especially potent on Media-Luna, and the
![Local Review: Last Response – Have You No Sense of Direction? EP](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/10/LAST-RESPONSE_HAVE-YOU-NO-SENSE-OF-DIRECTION-EP-1024x1007.jpg)
Local Review: Last Response – Have You No Sense of...
Last Response Have You No Sense of Direction? EP Last Response = AFI + Taking Back Sunday + Sunny Day Real Estate Yes, I never thought I’d put AFI and Taking Back Sunday in the same equation, either, let alone Sunny Day, but once you hear Last Response, you’ll hear what I mean. Sanguine anthems
![Local Review: Purr Bats – Soft Fluff EP](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/10/PURR-BATS_SOFT-FLUFF-EP-1024x1003.jpg)
Local Review: Purr Bats – Soft Fluff EP
Purr Bats Soft Fluff EP State of Deseret Purr Bats = Virgin Prunes + Rope or Bullets + candy necklaces Purr Bats, a jeweled rainbow Phoenix risen out of the bleak, life-affirming wasteland that was Utah County band Puri-do, are a fleck of unadulterated talent in a grey fog of bombastic music caricatures. They
![Local Review: Yield – Self-titled demo](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Yield – Self-titled demo
Yield Self-titled demo Yield = Alice in Chains + Metallica’s “Sanitarium” + Extreme Mid-80s chunka-chunka low-end metal parleys with tender, suicidal Alice-in-Chains ballads touching on themes of mind-rupturing confusion with plenty of guitar-pick’d arpeggios and minor chords (choicest example: “Brainwash”). It’s been done before, but Yield succeeds at a much-traversed genre because they’re completely
![Local Review: Terra Noir – Emperors of the Black Earth](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/Image_Unavailable.jpg)
Local Review: Terra Noir – Emperors of the Black Earth
Terra Noir Emperors of the Black Earth Hellspawn Creations Terra Noir = Mayhem + Dark Throne + Burzum When you look up and see the gray skies of death above your head, your final thoughts will be about the haunting voice of hell that wafts through your mind … Terra Noir have a unique