L7

Bricks Are Heavy

L7 will probably remain in the shadows of Nirvana, Soundgarden, AIC and Pearl Jam as far as grunge is concerned. And some of that is due to sexism, which is a main topic of this album. In the 80s and 90s, female artists in this genre playing brash grunge was unprecedented and often ignored. As an album, it's a knuckling album with crunchy guitars and a confident swagger. Legacy-wise, the album is loaded with the cues that created and inspired riot grrl, or feminist punk in the 90s. Above all, ... read more

some very very heavy grunge. a really interesting style that was ultimately overshadowed by more mainstream grunge bands. "pretend like we're dead" is an amazing song and has immediately become one of my favourites of the 90's. some crazy good stuff.

Slay

Look. I love grunge. And I really want to give women in the scene a better outlook because I know how rampant sexism was and still is in the said genre.

But this just ain't it for me.

There are some really sick riffs and bass lines but the vocals man, they just put me to sleep.