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...night, area music fans braved below-freezing temperatures, trudging through slush and snow to witness the return of a local legend. Juliana Hatfield was back with a full band for the first time in two years, kicking off the U.S. leg of a tour in support of her new EP Please Do Not Disturb. Along with a cold picked up last week in Australia, Hatfield seemed slightly ill at ease--perhaps with the prospect of a national tour looming ahead, a new band member's aggressive stage presence (red-jumpsuited bassist Mike Welsh) or the daunting prospect of signing with...
...Meek"'s groove, the most unforgivable part of So Long is the blatant reuse of previously released material. Although they are wonderfully brief and raucous additions, "Murder the Government" and "I'm Telling Tim" are cut-and-paste replicas of songs from the Fuck the Kids EP that came out late last year. Nothing could scream laziness more, except splicing distinctive harmony from another NOFX album onto So Long. Well, the band does just that. The vocal cascade at the end of "All Outta Angst" is recycled straight from "Leave It Alone" o Punk In Drublic...
...Indie World," a song from he first EP, Lord dropped a lot of names and worried that she didn't belong to a music scene that included fellow Kill Rock Star performers Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. N matter what the future may hold, she insists that her first full-length album does not mark a departure from that scene. And success she reaches with the WORK Group CD will only be reflected in back catalog sales for Kill Rock Stars, enabling them to keep the records of other struggling indie artists on the shelves. In addition, the covers...
...eight-song EP begins with the dense fury of "Come To Daddy, Pappy Mix," which contains only the lyrics "I want your soul/I will eat your soul." These are perhaps the least disturbing of the few vocal snippets on the album. All the vocals are presumably provided by James himself, but they are all altered to such a degree that he sounds alternately like a little child, a demonic killer and an old man. After the unsettling clamor of the first track, James provides a respite with "Flim," a soft, lilting instrumental which still manages to sound menacing. Perhaps...
...real excitement on this little EP, however, comes with the next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate pronoun game at work in the song reveals its actual subject: Hatfield herself. Instead of saying "I" over and over, Hatfield starts the song out in the second person, pointedly commenting on an unknown woman's pathetic dependency: "Crack a joke/light his smoke/as if your life depended...