From
Trouser Press - an unflattering review
Since the music on
Your Ice Cream’s Dirty — a witless meander
through the backyards of various Seattlooza sounds (’70s Britrock,
puerile comedy, a slack version of Rollins Band kick-out-the-thrashjams,
stoner country, stoner jazz) — doesn’t offer an adequate explanation
for this underachiever’s major-label-affiliated existence, a little
background is in order. In the mid-’80s, Devilhead guitarist Kevin Wood
was in the lame Malfunkshun with his younger brother Andrew, who went on
to front Mother Love Bone and then OD in 1990, leaving two bandmates —
one of whom co-owns Loosegroove with another Malfunkshun alumnus — to
form Pearl Jam. Devilhead, which has no fixed lineup but calls
Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound home, includes a third Wood,
singer/guitarist Brian. Collectors of Seattle ephemera may be compelled,
but nothing about
Your Ice Cream’s Dirty otherwise merits a second glance.
[Ira Robbins]