Insound Staff Pick - 2008! New York City's Le Tigre's collaboration is a deliriously addictive, hybrid sound the band calls "feminist punk electronic music." It's a mix of drum-machine samples, synth hooks, buzzing guitar loops, gang vocals, and foolproof bass-lines. Le Tigre's roots go all the way back to a Bikini Kill show in Portland, Oregon: Johanna, in the audience, was impressed and intrigued, and approached Kathleen to give her a copy of her feminist art zine, Snarla. The two became fast friends, an...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound recommended. Le Tigre features Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, The Fakes, and Suture), filmmaker Sadie Benning (after this release, Sadie left and was replaced by JD Samson), and Johanna Fateman. The trio use samples, claves, farfisa, a live dj, guitar, voices, and beats to make their poignant-but-danceable music. Their sound touches on conceptual garage, digital anthemic, political sadness, and unfinished soundtracks...a darn good record.

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Insound recommended. Le Tigre features Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, The Fakes, and Suture), filmmaker Sadie Benning (after this release, Sadie left and was replaced by JD Samson), and Johanna Fateman. The trio use samples, claves, farfisa, a live dj, guitar, voices, and beats to make their poignant-but-danceable music. Their sound touches on conceptual garage, digital anthemic, political sadness, and unfinished soundtracks...a darn good record.

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