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Bully “Sharktooth”

I’m still not over the novelty of there being several young women making very good, very dynamic, very provocative iterations of mid-90s alt-rock in 2015. I suppose there is a certain inevitability about 20 year fashion cycles in music, but it still seems to me like a resource that had become incredibly scarce is now suddenly abundant. Bully lean in hard on the soft/loud dynamics, but I think what makes them interesting is in the way they lace in bits of glam with the grunge, and how Alicia Bognanno spits out her lines with an acidic whine that’s very similar to Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema. That affect is perfect for a song like “Sharktooth,” which is basically just Bognanno telling off some guy who sounds like he may be a junkie, but is definitely kind of a lowlife either way.

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