Sports! Chips! Booty! is getting great reviews:
San Francisco Bay Guardian:
"... Neuburg ... comes across as a funked-out Laurie Anderson,
out-Zappa-ing Frank himself."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Life is a cabaret, old chum, and if you're Amy X Neuberg or one of
her "manly" men, there's acid in the Kool-Aid sitting over there on
the bar. Somehow, vocalist-performance artist Neuberg manages to
capture all the carnivalesque goings-on of her reality-bending
stage show on this release, her follow-up to 1996's Utechma.
Delivering sharp, satirical pokes at the sad underpinnings of
traditional masculinity and its trappings, Neuberg revels in the
absurd and comes across as a flanked-out Laurie Anderson,
out-Zappa-ing Frank himself. On the hilarious "Naked Puppets" she
spoofs conformity ("Last night I saw Eraser-head / Today I cut my
hair"), while "Orange County" paints a grimly comic portrait of
American living. Her Men ¬ Herb Heinz on guitar, Joel Davel on
MIDI mallets and "lightening stick," Micah Ball on Chapman stick,
and J.T. Quillan III delivering "ambient personality" ¬ traipse
along with gregarious zeal, despite their deliciously subservient
roles. (Chan)
San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 17, 1999, page 79
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