Album: You Know My Name/Wedding Day SINGLE
Year: 2014
Rating: 4/5
Where To Buy: ON ITUNES
It's been a while since we've heard new music form Ms. Love. Since 2010's Nobody's Daughter, she shifted between promising new music, and being on hiatus. Rumors of her reuniting the Celebrity Skin-era Hole lineup, signs of pursuing a solo career, and her "book" have kept her in the public eye of course, but deprived fans of the new music they so desperately craved. That being said, she released You Know My Name/Wedding Day, a double A-Side single on May 4th. I, as a fan and music listener, have to say that she has successfully come back to her heavy rock roots. To describe the lead single, You Know My Name, it sounds like everything America's Sweetheart should have been. Taught lyrical writing, aggressive yet catchy instrumental, and of course, Courtney's signature guttural vocals. A video is waiting for release at the time of this review, with mini sneak peaks via her social networks, it looks to be along the same lines, visually, as Mono( the lead single off her first 2004 solo album, America's Sweetheart) which, I could live without, but it'll be interesting nonetheless.Wedding Day, the second song, is a beautiful throwback "Alt-Rock" classic, sounding like it came right off of Live Through This. She uses more groove based guitar riffs in this song which is odd for her but enjoyable, her lyrical content is amazing and the structure is beautiful. The vocal performance, however, is slightly lacking. It sounds as though she had strained her voice after her power house performance in YKMN and just said, "Fuck it, put it in." Which is fine, but I would like to hear a cleaned up acoustic version of this song over the original. Overall, I give this "album" 4/5 stars because the music, lyrics, and over all presentation of the record is phenomenal, it's just that Wedding day could have been better.
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