Courtney Love is the most infamous widow in rock history. The woman who failed to take good care of her haunted husband Kurt Cobain (there are conspiracy theories that go on), neglected their daughter after his suicide and led a noisy and brash public life as an actress, singer, and most importantly, junkie. You would almost forget that her career with Hole started promising (without Kurt) in 1992
… with the strong album Pretty On The Inside, followed two years later by the equally powerful Live Through This. With a line-up that has nothing to do with the original Hole, she now returns under this name. Nobody's Daughter is a record that musically harks back to grunge and alternative nineties rock (Smashing Pumpkins), sometimes successful (Skinny Little Bitch, Pacific Coast Highway) and sometimes a bit whiny and long-winded. She still has the same icy scream that dominates Pretty On The Inside, but her voice also sounds broken in repertoire that partly originated in a rehab clinic. She will not win back the attention she managed to draw on herself with this not bad but certainly not spectacular album. (MR)more
