#72/1239
February 1986
Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde
Genre: Rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Your Haunted Head
Still in Hollywood
Over Your Shoulder
I haven’t heard something like this since 45 Grave. This is the first, most assured, straightforward, non-pop rocker by a female led band that I think we’ve heard. By that I mean, it isn’t cheeky or cute, it isn’t gimmicky and doesn’t try to fit in that lane. It’s got muscle and edge and I put that on Johnette Napolitano. I used to get Concrete Blonde confused with 4 Non Blondes and Blonde Redhead and then I just never bothered.
This is an unexpected trip as I wasn’t expecting this kind of dank rocking sound from 86. “Still in Hollywood” sounds like an X cover band. And I don’t say that like it’s a bad thing. I miss that sound. A sound that will come back with the ill-fated Betty Blowtorch and shit…I’m sad about Bianca Butthole now.
This album sounds like a band that will come into it’s own during the next decade. Either they are leading that charge or just happen to be in the right place at the right time.
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