EYE NOISE! Broken Flag's short anthology of manifestos looks like it was cloned on a photocopier from the early 1970s. The hieroglyphs that haven't completely eroded away will show you singular paragraphs on wokeness, Paul Lemos' dissatisfaction with a stagnating cassette culture (W-O-W, even back then!), and a semi-thesis inspired by the misadventures of Syd Barrett. None of it seems too pretentious, with the overall vibe of the contributors coming off as more restless than self-righteous.
Spectrum was a wholly traditional music zine with a "desktop publishing" layout (it's as '90s as the interviewees, e s p e c i a l l y t h e f o r m a t t i n g e r r o r s). Knowledgable reviews and lengthy dialogs with Malignant Records, Megaptera, MZ.412, The Protagonist, Sanctum, and Hazard. Again, thankfully, there's no discernible elitism from the editor or his subjects (this scene has always been rife with "people" who think they're genetically superior for liking glorified horror movie soundtracks), with good ol' fashioned enthusiasm taking precedent over being an egotistical bore.
Fight illiteracy and record-nazis...
