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| Pitchfork |
 For girls who came of age in the mid-1990s, streaked their hair with Manic Panic, accessorized baby-doll dresses with combat boots and thrift-store cardigans, and crammed dog-eared copies of Sassy into each others' lockers, Courtney Love can feel like something of a pet cause. In 1994, Live Through This, Hole's second LP-- released, famously, in the wake of Kurt Cobain's suicide, after Love spent the weekend tottering through a vigil in a Seattle Center park-- was transformative, instructive, and beloved. That harsh, throaty gasp at the end of "Violet" was so authentically exhausted it felt like a promise: I'm giving you all I've got. We took it.In the years since, Love has become less a savior than a punchline, an egomaniacal eccentric who seems to invite tabloid bullshit: the incoherent twittering, the inexplicable brawls (squabbling with Lily Allen about who gets to wear a dress?), the bizarre Facebook apology to Billy Corgan. Sadly, Love's public persona has colored her music for just about everyone-- especially since her celebrity has been so pivotal (and purposeful) in the promotion of her work. Part of Love's appeal is her bravado, and she does her savvy best to substantiate it for us. That she fails, that we cringe, or that any of us still care are all valid lenses; they were provided by Love herself....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Five years is a long time, almost dramatically so. But then again, nothing is too dramatic for former Hole member, Courtney Love. All comparisons to Axel Rose’s Chinese Democracy aside, Courtney Love and former Hole bassist Melissa auf der Mauer have reunited to at long last to release Nobody’s Daughter, a project five years in the making. Nobody’s Daughter started out as a Courtney Love release, but eventually evolved into a new Hole album, even though only two original members (including Love) remain. Newcomer Micho Larkin is replacing Eric Erlandson on lead guitar and Hole’s new drummer is TBA. Renowned producer Linda Perry began work on the album in 2006, though Love has since recruited a slew of others to help solidify Nobody’s Daughter including producer Michael Beinhorn (Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson). Nobody’s Daughter is expected to come out on December 29, 2009....full text |
| Bbc |
| When Hole’s raging, ragged debut album appeared in 1991, few would have predicted that new records would still be appearing under that name 19 years later. But then, Courtney Love has often turned being misunderstood and underestimated into an art form. Of course, there will always be Love-loathers who dismiss her every success as solely dependent on her status as Kurt Cobain’s widow. This ignores the fact that she has slowly and erratically built up a back catalogue which rivals Cobain’s in depth, if not in impact. Nobody’s Daughter, despite its lengthy and troubled gestation, is a rich and emotionally searing addition to that canon, effortlessly besting her haphazard solo album. The imperious title-track opens and establishes the blueprint. The sound is still distinctly 90s (the strafing guitars suggesting that Love has been listening to The Afghan Whigs) but her vocals have a new, weathered stateliness. Love has always had a Plath-like obsession with her own mythology, but on Nobody’s Daughter it is given full reign. She rages, “Don’t tell me I have lost when clearly I’ve won,” with the righteous, defiant fury of someone who didn’t die or fade away as many predicted, and some seemed to desire....full text |
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