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RE-VIEWSBlips and clips old and new. Media requests can be made at m1lkm4n@hotmail.com. An Uncontrollable Urge (18 Dec 2009) It’s pretty good. It’s lo-fi, but it seems as though they actually were able to pick up the bass, which is cool, because I feel like a lot of recordings of this nature are lacking in that respect. Well done, there. By Uncontrollable Urge Still Single (14 Oct 2009) The cover certainly had me expecting the worst, like ska-punk worst, though the colorful imagery gave way to hard naked black bodies and fat devils with hard ons. Ohhh, Apples and Bananas, get it? Musically, it is even more of a pleasant surprise; jumped up, clattering and a bit cacophonous, just drum and guitar with a palpably seamy underbelly. It sounds like Pink Reason taking a proto-punk shot at Pixies or Guided By Voices style pop, maybe a touch of recorded in garbage can with good acoustics. Songs trying to put the best face on fucking tweakers amidst other pitfalls of being young and gay. Compelling and catchy. By Killedbyjeff KZSU Zookeeper (04 April 2009) Off kilter fucked up lo-fi garage rock. Four short tracks with definite proto-punk sensibilities a la Velvet Underground or maybe The Monks. Clangy guitars and cacophonous vocals, this truly sounds like it was recorded in a garage. Hell yeah, this is great stuff! Play with The Polyps, The Stooges, the Fall, maybe Syd Barrett. Horny Applie Pie- uptempo, straight up rock and roll. Apologetic Bananas- Stooges style proto-punk. Radiant - White Light White Heat style cacophonous deconstruction. Taco Fish - Slow, scary, dark, like having a hard time sobering up from a mushroom trip. By Gears The Devil Has The Best Tuna (11 March 2009) RD Mauzy is a multi-faceted, multi talented artist who makes his way in life through writing (mybestpotstories.com), photography and gritty goofy rock and roll. In 2007 he released his acoustic/punky 'Honeycut' single backed with an explosive cover of Madonna's 'Burning Up' which got a favourable mention on MP3 Hugger. His new single 'Oppols On Bononos' is a fruit-filled musical experience packaged as a homo-erotic-comic-meets-seven-inch with song and art mixing in metaphors of apples and bananas and is as left field as that sounds. It's a raggedly endearing sound with discordant, repetitive rhythms and bursts of noisy guitar. Imagine Pavement at their most defiantly lo-fi throwing fruit at an atonal Beck in an organic greengrocers and you're getting warm. It's the kinda noise that John Peel would have would have loved . By the Devil. MP3 Hugger (02 March 2007) So often tunes rack up one play and are discarded, other times they make the half a dozen mark and are revealed as the shadowy customers that they truly are. I knew RD Mauzy’s ‘Honeycut’ (I was dreading a mock rap jump around the car park effort) was going to stick though from the very first play. RD the Milkman (if you don’t mind) bares his soul and his stripped bare arrangements press buttons I thought I had lost along with that scruffy parka all those years ago. RD is a prolific recording artist, diary scribbler and long time escapee from Lakeside, California and his eye for crafting a velcro tune has even led him to reworking a Madonna banger from 1983 called ‘Burning Up’. ‘Honeycut’ could be this years answer to ‘the JCB Song’ except that this time the cartoon characters have fangs and the not so friendly vehicle will run you over at every opportunity. Everybody singalong now 'I Got The Shit Kicked Out Of Me......'. By KD. KZSU Zookeeper (11 May 2007) Quiet rock w/punk aesthetic. Short two song EP (#3 is a clean #1). Kinda a sentimental, like a bored teenager playing guitar in his bedroom on a lonely night. Upbeat, though, with some faux-tough/punk tendencies. Nostalgic bare pop. Slow + quiet (but driving!). Repetitive vox melody. Kinda folky in simplicity, but a little punky w/adolescent tone. Laid-back organ + staccato bass. Fun cover of a Madonna song, Burning Up. Up-tempo, punky, quick pop. By Scott Coomes Reviews of Animal Logic, EP by LAKESIDE PROJECT: 
Noreaster Zine (Reviews, Summer '02) Receiving this in the mail was truly a nice surprise, being that it is a rare occurrence that an utterly unknown band sends me a record that knocks my socks off. Boston’s Lakeside Project create an interesting mix of artsy noise-scapes similar to the farther-out-there stuff of Sonic Youth. Included on "Animal Logic" is a brief moment of total pop songwriting brilliance. That’s right, pop songwriting brilliance. The track "Sewing Machine" immediately struck me as one of the sharpest songs I have heard this year, inexplicably reminding me of "Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears. The same feeling for some odd reason is generated by both songs. For Lakeside Project's sake, I hope they don’t take offense to this observation. As Dickie V. would say, these guys are diaper-dandies. Bee on the lookout for them. By JD. Geek America (Reviews, May 15, '02) "Animal Logic" is comprised of 5 Minimalist droning mostly instrumentals (the songs that do have vocals are distorted and creepy) that are half Bardo Pond, and half Boards of Canada. The resulting feeling one gets from listening is a stressed out tense atmosphere that will leave you breathless on the floor. It's a more musically acceptable version of the way that Man Is The Bastard could make you physically Ill while playing live due to the sheer grossness of the noises they made. Lakeside Project does that for your psyche. Oh yeah, and they have a song called Bear Attack, which Geek America is proud to support. You don't fuck with a song called Bear Attack. Great stuff! By CS. The Noise (Issue #221, May '02) Lakeside Project brilliantly combines the pastoral soundscape textures of Pell Mell, Auto 66, and Land of the Loops with the grind and churn of guitars reminiscent of the Swans, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, and Sonic Youth. That's just the instrumental tracks. The vocal tracks sound like all of the above plus flashes of Meddle era Pink Floyd, early Velvets filtered through Ween, and Daniel Johnston. Lakeside Project's sleepy experimental edge is an easy fit for this brain, and I had quite a great deal of fun listening to this one with all the lights out and stoned out of my gourd. I recommend this when listening to this disc. On a side note, I have been a fan of Allen Esser's drumming for many years with bands like Ceramic, Transmission, and even his one-off performance as a drummer for Midnight Call. It's so gratifying to see him drumming in such an artistically satisfying project like this one. I can't wait to hear more of this. It's fucking brilliant !! By Joel Simches. Splendid (Reviews, May '02) If there's a guitar line that can mimic the experience of looking at a bright night sky, Lakeside Project has created it. They trot it out in Animal Project's opener, "Thirty Year Waiting List". The song begins calmly, slowly unfolding with melodic, rhythmic guitars that float above a synthesized, spacy arrangement; it's perfect for late-night listening. "Sewing Machine" takes the formula even further, combining "Thirty Year Waiting List"'s wondrous effect with a strong dose of sentiment, as emotional lyrics are yelled beneath a blissful sonic haze. During the song's climax, two guitars play muted, bell-like melodies, tapping into heartfelt emotions. Unfortunately, the EP is degraded by two mediocre tracks, "Hutchison Effect" and "Sick So Pretty". The former is an eight-minute onslaught of distorted guitars; it sounds like the last song of an acid-rock band's set. Melodies, and even some sense of order, continually attempt to free themselves from the noise, but everything is washed away by the headache-inducing background drone. "Sick So Pretty" isn't as memorably weak; it's lo-fi pop with a tribal-style beat, lacking both the talent of "Thirty Year Waiting List" and the emotion of "Sewing Machine". The EP ends with "Bear Attack", a similar but slower spin on "Thirty Year Waiting List"'s concept. It begins and ends with a laugh track -- which, combined with slow, blissful guitars, creates a conclusive, it's-not-so-bad-after-all feeling. The EP is worth buying for "Thirty Year Waiting List" and "Sewing Machine" alone -- but let's hope that their future efforts are more consistently inspired. By Josh Kazman |