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Holes original précis was to become something like Sonic Youth crossed with Fleetwood Mac, and Americas Sweetheart is the closest shes come to creating that vision.
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Entertainment WeeklyLove's bristling energy and careening narcissism overcome the occasionally clubfooted arena-punk arrangements. [20 Feb 2004, p.63]
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SpinA jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994's Live Through This. [Mar 2004, p.89]
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An album as invigorating in its contempt for rock professionalism as Neil Young's Tonight's the Night.
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'America's Sweetheart' is still more 'Celebrity Skin' than anything.
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BlenderWhile Love's voice is as scratchy and corrosive as ever, unfaraid to veer off-pitch for a good sneer, the album is big-time Hollywood rock. [Mar 2004, p.112]
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"America's Sweetheart" is a thrilling record. Held together by that extraordinary voice, which sounds even more shredded than it did in the days of "Dick Nail" and "Pretty On The Inside", she can still deliver.
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Americas Sweetheart throbs, chugs, thunders, blasts, romps, rants and rocks.
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In contrast to the raw, subdued intimacy of Hole's "Live Though This," the sound here is all dressed up and accessorized, hard and aggressive but tuneful and hook-laden.
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The result is a bumpy, self-indulgent ride, sure, but Love's fuming testimony is packed with a scraggily voice screaming to be heard and a bombastic blast of rage, raw power and sarcasm.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 50 out of 72
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Mixed: 5 out of 72
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Negative: 17 out of 72
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