Lotion

[RICHARD ROMEO]

from review in NY Press (1/24-1/30 96)



Lotion may become the most successful of post-Pavement wuss-rock bands, 
and they deserve to.  They approach the task of making accessible 
guitar-driven pop the indie-rock way:  they recognize that the problem is 
how to keep it interesting.  Not naive enough to pretend they're really 
doing anything new, they make the effort to season their rock candy with 
exotic flavors.

Somehow they got the fabulously elusive Thomas Pynchon to write the liner 
notes for Nobody's Cool, lending an ironic tinge to the title.  But 
Pynchon's pure, beautifully written bullshit-and the fact that the guys 
in Lotion reveal themselves onstage to be not only not-cool but complete 
dorks-are just distractions....Nobody's Cool is the kind of new-school 
take on rock's most-trod territory that will pay off in the buzz bin one 
or two albums from now...



Picked up free also something called the Literal Latte which you can find 
lying around just about anywhere in NYC which has emblazoned on most 
pages a small muted-horn.