Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:54:18 EST 
    From: Dez (100702.123@COMPUSERVE.COM) 
    Subject: Lush, Scheer eps etc

Scheer - Shea. Unreconstructed rock 'n' roll it may be, but Shea is one hell of
a track. Brief, storming and pretty damn neat. The second track My World is a
little more restrained and even briefer, but it doesn't really go anywhere in
its two minutes. Demon from the first 4AD 7" appears in acoustic form, and to
these ears sounds the better for it. Some of Scheer's songs are OK wrapped up in
cod-metal guitar, but others are best left alone - and this is one of those. The
final track is a demo version of Nemesis which presumably will appear on the
forthcoming LP. Again they veer dangerously toward Soungarden / Smashing
Pumpkins territory, but again somehow miraculously pull it off. I guess the
wispy Goths out there among you who seem to think that 4AD should forever be
stuck in a 1985 timewarp will probably hate this, but I'm coming off the fence
that I've been sat on since Schism to give Scheer a big thumbs up.