FEATURED REVIEW:"Hit Pick" Westword, March 31, 1999
"Fonksquish [our former outfit -Aaron] is a real group, more or less, but that doesn't mean it's easy to pin down. The outfit evolved from Pepperment, a freewheeling funk collective lauded in these pages a few years back. After Pepperment broke up, bandmembers Neal Landauer, Charlie Buchanan, and Aaron Langton recorded together in so many different configurations and touched upon such an array of styles that they're calling their first CD a compilation rather than a band project. True enough, MH2 Hits is an extremely varied package: "Saturday Nite" is a raucous rocker, "MHC Theme" ventures into soul-anthem territory, "It Ain't Me" embraces neo-hippie pop, "Phantom Power" dirties up some funk, "Hand Over Hand" could be a Frank Zappa outtake, and "Radicaine" does country the Rolling Stones Way. Unsurprisingly, the disc is an up-and-down affair, but there are plenty of highlights, and the players exude a welcome willingness to try anything and everything. Live, Landauer and friends are trying to narrow their focus, performing mainly funky material under the Fonksquish name and billing themselves as Rosco when they're in the mood to rock [Both now defunct, though we carry on as Uncut-Aaron]. But don't be surprised if they find it impossible to color between the lines even if they're the ones who drew them in the first place. After all, they're about breaking rules, not obeying them.