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Corin Tucker Band: Kill My Blues – review

The orginal west coast riot grrrl is back to her rocking ways, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Before Hurricane Ditto the loudest riot grrrl on the west coast was Corin Tucker, wind-tunnel frontwoman for Sleater-Kinney. With S-K still cleaved in half, Tucker is on her second solo album, a return to rocking ways after 2010's quieter 1,000 Years. Accompanied with sass and subtlety by bits of Unwound and Stephen Malkmus's Jicks, Tucker opens with a rallying cry about feminism treading water. Of course you can dance to Groundhog Day, as you can to Neskowin, a punk-funk coming-of-age single. Most intriguing of all, perhaps, Kill My Blues actually features a really good blues track – Blood, Bones and Sand; not what you'd expect from a latterday punk rock heroine.

 

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