Heathen Worship

Mistletoe played a short and taut set for the few kids lucky enough to stick around. Their EP Sorry It's Been So Long-- which they were sweet enough to give away -- is occasionally tame, the production all too stable. Their musical clothes sound too well-pressed. Job-interview music. Live, these boys tore that musical self to shreds. They just seemed so holy and street -- I wasn't sure whether I should ask them who to kill or if I should take them home and bake for them. This was garage rock in all the right ways, Dad's shelves smashed, bicycles overturned, rock so loud and abrasive that the girl next door has no choice but to hear it. Since, after all, that was the whole point in the first place. (Russel Swensen)