Le Tigre (+4)[Reissue]

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:45:24
Le Tigre: Kathleen Hanna (vocals); Sadie Benning, Johanna Fateman. Additional personnel: Chris Stamey (trumpet, tom-toms); Lake Lloyd, Tammy Rae Carland, Jen Smith. Principally recorded at Modern Recording, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Includes 4 bonus tracks recorded for the BBC. Le Tigre (Rock): Kathleen Hanna (vocals); Johanna Fateman, Sadie Benning. Personnel: Chris Stamey (trumpet, tom tom, sound effects); Tammy Rae Carland, Jen Smith, Lake Lloyd (background vocals). Additional personnel: Chris Stamey, Jen Smith, Lake Lloyd, Tammy Rae Carland. Audio Mixers: Le Tigre ; Suzanne Dyer. Recording information: BBC Maida Vale Studios (1999); Modern Recording, Chapel Hill, NC (1999); The Apt (1999); The Practice Space, New York, NY (1999). Arranger: Le Tigre . The debut effort from Le Tigre sounds like the best new wave album not to come from the 1980s. Here, frontwoman Kathleen Hanna expands on the lo-fi sounds she tinkered with on her debut solo album, Julie Ruin. Le Tigre melds punk, new wave, and hip-hop into a seemingly cute package. Each song is hummable, and Hanna's "valley girl intelligentsia" voice is perfectly deceptive. In "Deceptacon," a song loaded with the kind of simple contradictions that made Kurt Cobain's lyrics so effective, Hanna sings, "Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme." "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes" is the best song about an auteur since King Missile's "Martin Scorsese." "My My Metrocard" and "Les and Ray," two of the best songs on the album, display a welcome sort of contradiction: both songs seem to be about escape and exploration ("Think I'll go a little/but then I go far"), but the catchy hooks of these tunes are inescapable. With Bikini Kill, Hanna's politics were as subtle as the Empire State Building. But with Le Tigre, as with the great Tom Tom Club song "Genius of Love," the listener is left not only humming and dancing, but exploring the wealth of reference material hidden within its confines. ~ Brian Flota
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)