An Essential Guide to Riot Grrl: Le Tigre, Le Tigre
SCORE: 96/100
Le Tigre debuted into the Riot Grrrl scene with a delightfully distorted and danceable sound that set them apart hugely from other bands that took on a similar style - making their self-titled 1999 spectacle feel like a massive landmark and milestone within the entire genre.
The band's highly unique approach to Riot Grrrl individualizes them a massive amount - their sound is wild and highly noisy while still being accessible enough through songs like 'Deceptacon' for it to be an album that almost anyone could get along with; and the end result of this experimentation and impressively unique style is an album that has a sound you won't find from any other artist - no matter how hard they tried to replicate the spark made here.
Not only is this album a massive feat in terms of highly stylized elements, but it is a hugely socially conscious body of work that makes it that much more enjoyable - it stays so superlatively ahead of the curve and true to the Riot Grrrl genre that any band would be silly not to take at least some influence from the band - and each song on this album sounds so different and truly unique that this album is an absolute essential in the rock genre as a whole.
Each song on this album is something new and exciting - all of the songs come together, but they work so well on their own as well that this album becomes that much better and that much more fun. There's a huge sense of diversity and variety throughout every single song - and all of these sounds are things you can't get from anywhere else. This album still sounds hugely fresh over two decades later, and you can still hear the influence it has on modern punk bands like Amyl and The Sniffers in the 21st century.
Kathleen Hanna works as the front of Le Tigre just as well as she did with Bikini Kill - and this is entirely evident with the sheer quality held within this entire album. The overall sound quality and mixing are both stellar with just enough heavy noise and distortion to give their sound a much thicker edge, and the output from the band instrumentally, vocally, and lyrically was all as good as it gets.
'Le Tigre' has a hugely spunky and diverse sound palate that sets the band even further apart from the crowd - Riot Grrrl is such a unique genre with so many different bands and styles to choose from; and Le Tigre are some of the best that the entire scene ever had to offer. Their messages are concrete-strong and their ideals are wonderfully aligned, they stand their ground and make both a scene and an impact - and the result is a massively strong, almost overflowing melting pot of love, hate, and politics; all of which make for an outstanding showcase of punk, dance, early indietronica, and Riot Grrrl soundscapes that mesh together exceedingly well.
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