Reject All American

Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.108) - Ranked #40 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records". Rolling Stone (5/16/96, p.68) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...supplementing their fiery, bash-`em-in-the-face punk with sweetly seductive pop...these edgy, melodic anthems never lapse into whining..." Spin (6/96, p.114) - 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...Hanna's mutable bellow remains BK's most potent weapon....most of REJECT gets the pop point, and takes up where the much-missed [Bratmobile]...left off--the pleasingly indefinite border where girl-group `na-nas' shade off into riot-grrrl `nyah nyahs'." Entertainment Weekly (4/12/96, p.68) - "...[Kathleen Hanna's] band's second and tightest album is 28 wonderfully concentrated minutes of unrelenting punk, with mid-tempo stops that pay homage to Kurt Cobain and Tony Randall. The Go-Go's as riot grrrls." - Rating: A- Alternative Press (8/96, pp.70-71) - 3 (out of 5) - "...a steamroller of equal parts political idealism and punk righteousness....blasts away at any expectations anyone may have had of them....not only one hell of a powerfully angry machine, but also capable of some surprising diversity..." Option (9-10/96, p.94) - "...Kathlenn Hanna's voice is nothing less than astounding, sweet as maple syrup on the edge of a sharp knife....Bill Karen's guitar work is his best ever....Part of what makes Bikini Kill important is the band's head-on collision with all anti-woman attitudes and acts..." Melody Maker (4/6/96, p.37) - Recommended - "...Twelve salvos...from the heart. Twelve messages of hope for America's disaffected youth. Boy/girl revolution has never sounded so cool..." RIP (8/96, p.70) - 3 (out of 5) - "...with REJECT ALL AMERICAN, BK's newly emerging facets provide a nice balance to a band that started out as a hostile one-trick pony." New York Times (Publisher) (6/2/96, Sec.2, p.28) - "...The title track...explains why the band disdains the sort of media attention most groups would die for. `Mass acceptance/Overrated,' Kathleen Hanna sings as part of a sarcastic litany of `all American' values that will earn her an executive position in an apocryphal company she calls `Nothing Incorporated'..."