the distillers

if you're only going to buy one cd this month...
it should be coral fang by the distillers. brody dalle sings the way courtney love always wanted to, by way of art alexakis (from everclear). okay, i might be assassinatedby various parties for the previous statement, but it's meant as a compliment and that's my gut impression. but nothing can really describe her voice, which was deeper than i expected and threw me into an envious turmoil. why can't i sing like that? uhm. perhaps we had better move on from that issue.

in any case, having listened to coral fang three times, i can honestly say that it is raucous, emotional, raw and absolutely bitchin'. if you've just broken up with an asshole, or have ever broken up with an asshole, or just have some sort of asshole in your life you need to get out of your system, this cd is the soundtrack you've been waiting for.

plus (and this is a biggie) it's the type of music that women in rock should be making, but haven't been. Brody doesn't try to act macho or girly, she just is. the lyrics are female without being feminine or feminised (yes, there's a difference, read your dictionary), and the music itself just rocks. it 's punk, but it has a tune, and you can dance to it. and by that i don't mean bobbing up and down or smacking your buddies in the nose as you mosh.

okay, gushing aside, i really like this cd more than i have liked any cd in a long time. it reminds me of the "old days", when i was 16 and everything seemed new and special.