Tempo Recordings.  Compulsion Comforter (Interscope)
(STAR)(STAR)(STAR...  January 26, 1995|By Greg Kot.   Comforter
(Interscope) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2  The debt to the Pixies'
"Surfer Rosa" and Nirvana's "Nevermind" is obvious, which keeps
this whip-lash disc from drawing even higher praise. But there
isn't a dead spot to be found, as guitars and drums rampage from
peak to peak in filler-free two- and three-minute bursts.  What
keeps this from becoming alterna-rock parody, on the order of
Stone Temple Pilots' Seattle homage, is the songwriting: A
chance discovery is turned into a haunting meditation
("Rapejacket"), while "Domestique" and "Eating" concisely
illuminate paranoia and obsession.