On their first record since 1999, L7 have returned to their grungy heyday, just a little bit older and wiser. Donita Sparks\u2019 snotty yet forceful vocals are still in full effect. Opener \u201cBurn Baby\u201d is an average track but a nice way to kick things off. \u201cFighting The Crave\u201d is a slower track with a riff that is killer as hell; it\u2019s a nice way to introduce L7 to the 21st century. \u201cProto Prototype\u201d is a nice throwback to the good \u2018ol days with Suzi Gardner on vocals taking it back to when rock music really was something great and forceful with another great riff backing everything up. This one is a damn great song.<\/p>\n
\u201cStadium West\u201d is another great cut. The ladies aren\u2019t as overly heavy here as they used to be in the past, but there really isn\u2019t an overall need for it. A song like this is perfect to balance out the heaviness. It\u2019s just really nice to have an all-female rock band back out here to show these pop divas what real music is all about. \u201cMurky Water Caf\u00e9\u201d is another slow burner, but the power and intensity this band always had is still there ready to be enjoyed.<\/p>\n
Not every song is an absolute winner \u2013 for instance, \u201cOuija Board Lies\u201d \u2013 but again, it\u2019s just great to hear this band again. Their attitude and take no shit essence has been missing from the rock scene for far too long. <\/p>\n
\u201cGarbage Truck\u201d is a nice little punk raveup that harkens back to something from Bricks Are Heavy <\/i>while \u201cCool About Easy\u201d is a sleazy, dirty track that reminds me of something from 1994\u2019s underrated Hungry For Stink<\/i>. The title track draws things out a bit, but it\u2019s a nice way to end the disc and a hell of a way to welcome these ladies back to a music scene that needed them so badly. Let\u2019s just hope that other current bands take a tip from L7 and decide to really blow out the speakers again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5781],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45626","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-l7","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45626"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45626"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}