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Artist: Little Green Men CD: "Blood of the Young" (P.K. Webberley Music) THE ROCKET (the northwest music and entertainment magazine) Reviews Oct 6-20, 1999 pg. 36 #311 Like homegrown Fred Hutch hydrodope, Olympia's Little Green Men have an organic, direct-to-abuser purity that is at once beguiling and overpowering. A crisply produced, electro-acoustic mix, The Blood of the Young runs in the darker glens of the prog-folk Epping Forest. So gripping and immediate are the sonorous vocals of singer/guitarist Pam Webberley that, when combined with the piercing, acoustic Zeppelin guitarscapes powering LGM's songs, the listener is dragged from the clearing, abducted, and taken on a personalized trip through the darkling shadow dance of latter day Hobbit rock. The title track starts out as a catchy warning, then morphs into something truly disturbing in its violent implications. The subdued tribalisms of "Phantom" add a bitchy-cool flavor to a disc brimming with witchy cool freshness. On a whole the work is consistent, balanced, and at times, damn good theater. DAVE LILJENGREN |