Hole are an awesome band, a seminal band of the '90s, but often shunned, often frankly for misogynistic reasons. They made three good albums up to 1998 and, well, let's not talk about what happened after that. Courtney Love released an album in 2004 which had a handful of good songs, one of them awesome, but was mostly filler. But it was Melissa Auf Der Maur, the band's still fairly new bassist with a subsequent stint in the Smashing Pumpkins, who surprised us all in the same year with this magnificent record.
I see Auf Der Maur released a subsequent album, way back in 2010, which I simply must hear on the basis of this outstanding debut, which is the only experience I have of her songwriting. There simply isn't a dud on the album, and the style is wonderfully varied. Yes, there are the obvious hits like "Followed the Waves" and "Overpower Thee", but the whole damn thing is a masterpiece. Solo albums are a mixed bag, we all know, and often self-indulgent. But this is one you must hear.
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