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Eastern Terrace
(Camera Obscura - CAMO51CD) 2002 |
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| "addictive, slightly annoying, strangely evoking the Rolling Stones," states the All*Music Guide |
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| "A few tracks even feature a well-placed guitar synth," cooes USA's DIG BMX mag... |
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| "it'll have you leaping off the ceiling," screams USA's Dream magazine. |
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| 'a triumphant close to a spaghetti western' ... fanfares USA's Free City magazine… |
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| "Any band that takes on -- and conquers -- Julian Cope's "Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed" says a lot about itself," claims USA's Ink 19 |
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| 'there is beauty here … and truth' notes Melbourne's In*Press magazine |
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| 'the modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of introspection' observes the USA's Metro Times. |
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| Eastern Terrace has drawbacks? Penny Black Music points one out. |
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| 'has a dancing grace that will make the antennas of our own underground
scene get up," attests Italy's Rockerilla magazine. Translated from Italian the language of this review is baroque, almost operatic. |
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| 'a cover of Julian Cope's ‘Out Of My Mind On Dope And Speed’, flags their chosen genre more effectively that any press release' suggests comedian Stewart Lee in UK's 'Sunday Times'. |
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| 'wonderfully wild-eyed and evocative' declares the UK's Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine |
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| 'the Sand Pebbles’ approach is visionary, sophisticated, subtle and spiritual' testifies Melbourne's Age newspaper |
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'the band explore two different worlds: a pop one and a more experimental, repetitive one...' suggests France's Zoopaloop magazine.
The more commercial oriented songs, "My Sensation" and "Dirty" could be hits but again, perhaps a little too strange. |
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The Sand Pebbles 7"
Single
(Camera Obscura CAMO42S) 2001 |
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| Rip off Love! Were they thinking no one was going to notice that? All*Music Guide lays a charge the Sand Pebbles are still trying to figure out. |
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| 'searing guitars like molten lava sluicing its way down a massive mountain slope,' imagines Sweden's 'Broken Face' magazine. |
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| 'a synthesis of the Sand Pebbles love for 60s fuzz pop and creative film scoring,' says Melbourne's In*Press magazine. |
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| The Sand Pebbles and Sting! USA's Magnet magazine knows the score. |
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| 'Celluloid and pop/rock are frequently intertwined but who were the first band to name themselves after a film?' asks UK's Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine |
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| 'the guitar tone on "Hey, Let Me In" is pure Status Quo (ca. Pictures Matchstickable)' USA's Wire magazine has an ear pressed to the speaker. |
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