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BILLBOARD MAGAZINE - 03.11.00

"Critic's Choice"

The Boston indie rock scene is a musical never-never land: It keeps unleashing postgrad, girl-fronted, guitar-centered alterna-pop like it's perpetually 1993. For those who appreciate the form, this is not necessarily a bad thing--especially when the practitioners are as good as Star Ghost Dog. The band's latest, "The Great Indoors," is a blend of bright riffs, heavy basslines, and sweet yet melancholic vocals from lead singer Ginny Weaver, mixed with a twist of electronic sampling. Think Veruca Salt, or Tanya Donelly of Belly fame, but with more textured atmospherics. The album works better as background mood music, given that many of the songs tend to play interchangeably, but there are enough bouncy, hook-driven moments like "Underdrive," "Erase Me," and "Moth" to satisfy the single-hungry looking to rock.