Nice things first: it is a good album. However, listen to it a couple of times and you’ll realise that it could have been a great album. ‘But Julian I’m a Little Bit Older Than You’ and ‘I’ll Do Anything’ hint at what could have been – they are catchy, strangely sexy pop-grunge songs in the ‘Celebrity Skin’ mould, while ‘Almost Golden’ is Love at her most self-depreciating. Unfortunately, they have to share disk space with the hulking mess that is ‘All The Drugs’, the cliché-ridden ‘Sunset Strip’ and the acoustic disasters ‘Uncool’ and ‘Never Gonna Be the Same’. Depending on your point of view, this is either grunge for grown-ups or riot grrl gone horribly, horribly wrong.
There are enough Nirvana-baiting lyrics to drive the Cult of Kurt to distraction and Courtney displays the same mix of honesty and angst that made Hole so interesting, but in the end you can’t help feeling that she should stick to ‘cruisin’ the Strip’ and insulting The Vines.

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