{"id":748,"date":"2010-08-13T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:28:14","slug":"hole-nobody%e2%80%99s-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/hole-nobody%e2%80%99s-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLE + Nobody\u2019s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nobodys-Daughter-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-749\" title=\"Nobodys-Daughter-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nobodys-Daughter-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Nobody\u2019s Daughter\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nobodys-Daughter-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nobodys-Daughter-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>H<\/strong><strong>OLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Nobody\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Universal]<\/p>\n<p>The first album released under the Hole moniker since 1998\u2019s <em>Celebrity Skin<\/em> is really frontwoman Courtney Love\u2019s second solo album\u2014co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson isn\u2019t involved, nor is any other previous Hole member. So it\u2019s Love and three ringers on 11 new songs\u201410 of which Love wrote with collaborators like Billy Corgan, Linda Perry and new guitarist Micko Larkin. (Perry gets full credit on one tune, \u201cLetter to God.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Much of the riveting intensity of the group\u2019s 1990s heyday appears to have left along with her former bandmates, but there are flashes here of the snarling fury Love deployed to such devastating effect back in the day. She spits out her vocals with vengeful disdain on \u201cSkinny Little Bitch,\u201d overdriven guitars roiling atop an elastic bassline that speeds up as the song races toward a climatic pile-up at the end. She shifts tempos and attitude on the more contemplative \u201cPacific Coast Highway,\u201d taking stock as layers of acoustic and electric guitars chug along behind her.<\/p>\n<p>Too often, though, the slower songs trip her up. While once they were showcases for harrowing displays of naked emotion, Love sounds more dispassionate these days. The production doesn\u2019t help\u2014the songs have an airless, sanded-down feel that doesn\u2019t fit with her visceral persona. Courtney Love\u2019s tumultuous history suggests that she has a compelling story to tell, and perhaps she does. It\u2019s just not the one she\u2019s telling on <em>Nobody\u2019s Daughter<\/em>. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLE Nobody\u2019s Daughter [Universal] The first album released under the Hole moniker since 1998\u2019s Celebrity Skin is really frontwoman Courtney Love\u2019s second solo album\u2014co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson isn\u2019t involved, nor is any other previous Hole member. So it\u2019s Love and three ringers on 11 new songs\u201410 of which Love wrote with collaborators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,385,70,386,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}