Sun Zoom Spark Fanzine
June 1994

Good ole fashioned rock 'n' roll sustenance can be a tad hard to come by sometimes. With all that is new and fluxful distracting the poor indiehead from those true indie values; a strong melody and vocal, driving bass and drumsound and that unstoppable guitar nastiness just occasionally glitching into feedback.

Enter Magnapop; saviours of the indie species. Ditch your Suede, your "New Punk", your crossover, your post-Pixies et al. Get back to those roots, man! This is a hard kickin', no-holds-barred indierock frontal assault on the bastions of urbanity. This is the sort of sound that levelled the walls of Jericho. Maybe it can even be done again!

I see no point in discussing individual songs here - the whole LP is just one continuous cascading vervacular speed trip. All right, all right "Lay It Down", "Texas" and "Idiot Song" stand out in particular (pssst, actually I just picked those titles at random but keep it to yourself). These gals and guys really have come up with something very exciting here. Something that is actually exciting, something that you can really sink your teeth into and taste blood instead of recycled raspberry jam.

Listening to "Hot Boxing" is more fun than driving a bulldozer thru the Conservative club car park. That beautiful noise!

- Dermot Hack