Hole: Nobody's Daughter | CD review

(Mercury)Hole's first album in 12 years has come with the usual serving of controversy, this time incited by the fact that Courtney Love is the only original member present. The recruitment of new hands (including a Brit, Larrikin Love's Micko Larkin), plus the bombast-loving Linda Perry as co-writer, has resulted in more polish and fewer scabrous punk moments. Love herself, though, has barely changed: still enslaved by the need to vent every emotion as it happens, she's alternately thrilling (...

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