Le Tigre

Editor's Review:

At first glance, it may appear that Le Tigre is a member o the Lilith set: an all girl band - ex-Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, video maker Sadie Benning and 'zine writer Johanna Fateman - whose aesthetic is as firmly planted in girl power as it is in indie hipness. But this trio has no place among the wispy solo guitar and piano music that comes from the Lilith stage. Le Tigre finds it roots in punk rock, albeit a most certainly nontraditional take on the genre. Blending electronic beats and other inorganic accompaniment with live instruments, Le Tigre takes the music itself into interesting, uncharted new territory.
From the Desk of Mr. Lady is the second release from this trio, a seven song EP that begins with "Get Off the Internet," a repetitive but cheerily bouncy jam, featuring piano and reverbed guitar strains masked by multiple vocals that chime in with some kind of wonderfully fucked up harmony. Songs like "Bang Bang" and "They Want Us to Make a Symphony out of the Sound of Women Swallowing Their Own Tongues" get their points across with liberal amounts of studio tinkering and sample layering. Other Tracks, like "Yr Critique" and "Mediocrity Rules," rely on dirty, hard-charging guitar riffs to do the job, while "Gone B4 Yr Home" is a tongue-in-cheek synth pop cut. The future of grrrl rock? Sure. Really cool in a dorky, punk rock kind of way? Absolutely.

- Max Sidman


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Record Label Mr. Lady Records Released January 2001

Tracks Get Off The Internet Bang! Bang! Yr Critique Gone B4 Yr Home Mediocrity Rules All That Glitters (Remix By Rachael Kozak) Bonus Track