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Bratmobile return with heartfelt, solid rocker
6 October 2000

Having disbanded in 1994 to pursue a variety of projects and bands including Cold Cold Hearts, Deep Lust, The PeeChees, and The Frumpies, seminal Riot Grrrl trio Bratmobile are back with a kick ass new album on their new label Lookout! Records.
Formed bicoastally in Washington State and D.C. back in 1991, the band now call the San Francisco Bay Area home. They toured Europe last year with The Donnas and take off on 17 October for six weeks around the US playing various dates with Gene Defcon, The Lapse, The Aislers Set, and other bands.
Bratmobile’s new album Ladies, Women and Girls (available on vinyl and CD in the US on 24 October) is deceptive in its lack of pretention. The production is as vanilla as the songs are heartfelt, provocative, and solid. It’s not as noisy as some of their older stuff, which might disappoint a few fans. And the songs—all great in terms of lyric, melody, and delivery—perhaps aren’t as well framed or carefully lit as they could be, which might leave some critics and even some normal people thinking there’s not much there. But for those who take the time to delve into the album (remember how it took a few listens to get The Buzzcocks?) there’s ample reward. Ladies, Women and Girls is a fun, energizing, and affecting album that I cannot get out of my head. The Bratmobile are real. | Bratmobile on Lookout! | | Bratmobile on Kill Rock Stars | | tour dates | | Panik (full length MP3) | | bio | | discography | | sample from Pottymouth (1993) | | CD | | top of page |

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