Name: Le Tigre
Brand: Le Tigre

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WIJLP1108

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Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-05-20

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PIAS

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0614027110811

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Black LP

WIJCDL1108

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2006-08-21

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Le Tigre

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Wiiija

<p>Le Tigre is an American electronic rock band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and Sadie Benning. With their left-wing sociopolitical lyrics, they address feminism and the LGBT community. Mixing punk's directness with playful samples, eclectic pop, and lo-fi electronics, Le Tigre creates a unique sound. Their live shows incorporate multimedia and performance art elements, often featuring support from like-minded acts such as The Need. After a hiatus, Le Tigre reunited in 2023 and has been touring together again.</p>

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The debut effort from Le Tigre sounds like the best new wave album not to come from the 1980s. Here, Kathleen Hanna expands on the lo-fi sounds she tinkered with on her debut solo album, Julie Ruin. Le Tigre melds punk, new wave, and hip-hop into a seemingly cute package. Each song is hummable, and Hanna's "valley girl intelligentsia" voice is perfectly deceptive. 

In "Deceptacon," a song loaded with the kind of simple contradictions that made Kurt Cobain's lyrics so effective, Hanna sings, "Let me hear you depoliticise my rhyme." "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes" is the best song about an auteur since King Missile's "Martin Scorsese." "My My Metrocard" and "Les and Ray," two of the best songs on the album, display a welcome sort of contradiction: both songs seem to be about escape and exploration ("Think I'll go a little/but then I go far"), but the catchy hooks of these tunes are inescapable.

 With Bikini Kill, Hanna's politics were as subtle as the Empire State Building. But with Le Tigre, as with the great Tom Tom Club song "Genius of Love," the listener is left not only humming and dancing, but exploring the wealth of reference material hidden within its confines.

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