Nobody's Daughter
| Hole
Nobody's Daughter
Nobody's Daughter is the fourth and final studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on April 27, 2010, through Mercury Records. The album was originally conceived by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love as a solo project titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean, following her poorly received solo debut America's Sweetheart (2004). -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Nobody's Daughter ultimately feels like a badly missed opportunity.
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Rolling Stone
She doesn’t have that power in her lungs anymore — barely a trace. But at least she remembers, and that means something in itself.
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Consequence of Sound
Everything on Nobody’s Daughter screams retro, but these are not your dainty table scraps or seemingly random leftovers from a decade long gone.
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The Quietus
Nobody's Daughter is not the triumphant return Love so desired, but there's just enough Love performative here to enliven its weaker moments.
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A.V. Club Music
Daughter pretty much nails the Patti Smith-meets-Stevie Nicks rasp Love has long aimed for.
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The Guardian
Courtney Love manages to be thrilling, snarling and tedious on her comeback album.
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Drowned in Sound
Nobody’s Daughter is neither an awful record, nor a great one.
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Slant Magazine
Nobody’s Daughter is largely hit or miss.
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L.A. Times
The biggest problem with “Nobody’s Daughter” is the mostly standard hard rock licks provided by her too-merry band of youngsters.
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NME
There are moments of magic within the messiness, but Ms Love’s comeback reflects its tough conception.
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Spinning Platters
I, for one, believe she still has another great album in her. This just isn’t it.
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MusicOMH
Like most Hole albums, Nobody’s Daughter has flashes of inspiration but is generally weighed down by inconsistency and too many songs that sound like they were phoned in.
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The Independent
Whether Courtney will ever artistically move beyond the increasingly tedious details of her soap-opera life remains debatable. And frankly, we all have more important things to debate.
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SPIN
It’s only when Love throws a pity party on a series of slow jams that sincerity eludes her. She made her bed. Now she’s gotta lie in it.
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BBC
An unexpected, intelligent success from an artist proving her detractors wrong.
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Buzznet
Love’s voice is gritty, angry, messy and right where it needs to be for most of the songs. It’s a bit hard to buy the moments where she appears to be tender, but for the most part it works.
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Central Recorder
Nobody’s Daughter is an album that proves Love’s music career can still have a bright future and that through all the drugs and family problems she may have, she can draw upon them to write songs that are expressive of her controversial personal thoughts.
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Newsweek
Sure, it's too early to tell whether Love can build on her modest success and get a good third decade going. But swearing off f--king with herself will do for now.
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Soundblab
It's a perfectly serviceable, if slightly mediocre, FM rock album. If Axl Rose had made it, we'd all think it was pretty decent.
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Anti-Quiet
It is a product of Courtney Love’s delusions of grandeur, and it smells of artistic fruit well past its expiration date.
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NOW Magazine
Love's survivor spirit shines.
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Contact Music
Bad.
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Under the Radar
I wanted to call pals and discuss how the lyrics related exactly to my situation. But I think I’m beyond it. And I think [Love] should be too.
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Herald Extra
A strong candidate for rock comeback of the year.
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Telegraph
Still sounds very cross.
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Flop or Not?
Great lyrics and beautiful melodies.
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Billboard
Hole is not one bit damaged.
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All Music
Courtney in an inevitable, not so romantic decline.
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The Skinny
Nobody's Daughter is a slickly produced and somewhat vapid collection of adequate, committee-written pop rock.
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Atlanta Music Guide
This fourth release by the brand that is Hole best serves those who genuinely enjoy Love’s distinct vocals and that 90’s grunge guitar feel.
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Anti-Music
The greatest records are ones where the listener can dive into, get swallowed whole and come out the other end with a better understanding of themselves; Nobody's Daughter is one of those records.
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Pop Matters
Courtney Love brings her freshly recruited band-mates and a whole lot of her signature angst to Hole's first full length in over ten years, Nobody's Daughter.
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NY Press
Courtney Love and Hole prove that sometimes theres a choice other than burning out or fading away.
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Digital Spy
When the final notes fade away, the question on your lips isn't 'Is it really a Hole record?', but instead, 'Does it really matter?'.
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The Oklahoman
Love’s voice is trashed; she has little to say of interest. After 12 years, Hole has not aged like scotch. It’s more like an old can of beer.
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Get in Her Ears
Nobody’s Daughter is a fierce, frenzied record that deserves repeated listens (purely for the ragers).
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Common Sense Media
Uninspired grunge rock that's too raw for kids.
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The Daily Iowan
It’s an 11-track long train wreck.
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Media Boy Musings
Hole's Nobody's Daughter is the epitome of mediocrity.
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Exclaim!
Love has never sounded so composed, exuding an almost alarming peacefulness that, ironically, signifies anything but the end.
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Entertainment
The first Hole album since 1998's 'Celebrity Skin' was certainly set up to be a spectacular comeback for Courtney Love, but there's a distinct lack of blistering rock tunes here. Has Ms. Love lost it?
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Star Tribune
The biggest problem with "Nobody's Daughter" is the mostly standard hard rock licks provided by her too-merry band of youngsters. These boys don't sound as though they've lived through anything, much less Love's torrid brand of "this."
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Entertainment Weekly
While Love remains as ferocious as ever, the bleak, samey production here doesn’t always rise to meet her.
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Spectrum Culture
Nobody’s Daughter is a wobbly step towards the light.
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Review Fix
COURTNEY LOVE LIGHTS A FIRE WITH NOBODY’S DAUGHTER, FIRST NEW ALBUM BY HOLE IN 10 YEARS.
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Robert Christgau
The emotion fueling her pretense is cathartic.
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My San Antonio
Serves as a badly needed reminder that there's more to Courtney Love/Michelle than tabloid headlines. Lots more.
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Boston.com
“Nobody’s Daughter’’ probably won’t restore Love’s credibility as a rock musician — her moment has passed — but unlike so many of her peers she’s still weirdly, thrillingly believable.
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The Daily Californian
This time, she's still burnt out all right-but destined to fade away yet again.
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Gigwise
Each song sounds like a stagnant echo of the past.
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u Interview
Fans will welcome the new record. Most others shouldn’t bother with it.
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Sound Opinions
Trash It.
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The List
A solid album, but lacking the energy required to make an impact after a decade away.
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Financial Times
Nobody’s Daughter . . . is unadventurous, samey production that turns each song into a dated alt-rock chug.
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The Digital Fix
If you liked Celebrity Skin, you'll like this, possibly even love it. If you yearn for the rougher edges of her earlier career, there's little here to pull you back into the fold.
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Hotpress
Long awaited courtney Love comeback lives up to the hype – and then some.
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