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- Summary: This is the solo debut album for the Sleater-Kinney singer/guitarist.
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- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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| The hotel bars stays open long The party noise is audible I'm on a phone call ten years long Is our connection breaking down? It's always... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Jan 7, 2011Seth Lorinczi provides the right shades of darkness‑-sometimes enticing, sometimes engulfing‑-as Sleater-Kinney fans long for a bright and cleansing breakout. They get one as "Handed Love" goes out, when Corin shouts her desperation and rips off a riff, then tops the outburst with the even more rousing "Doubt."
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1,000 Years is an uplifting album, despite some of the painful imagery. Sometimes wallowing in the past isn't such a bad thing, especially when, like it did for Corin Tucker, it moves you forward.
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Shorn of Brownstein's intricate guitar playing, Weiss' wonderfully impatient drums and her USP: The Tool, The Voice, Tucker is operating at brave distance from her comfort zone. In doing so she's unveiled a whole lot of other things she's good at.
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1,000 Years is a determined effort to go beyond a somewhat burdensome past--and a statement that Tucker is eager to express what's both beautiful and difficult about full adulthood.
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She's not shredding the awesome vocal cords so much, but she gets fierce in other ways, trying on cellos and piano ballads. When she finally cranks it up Sleater-Kinney-style on "Doubt," it feels earned: a cry of self-determination, as inspiring as ever.
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This is a record with a staggering perspective, one that Tucker has earned over the years and doesn't sound forced or self-righteous in any way.
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Corin Tucker's voice--always so uniquely emotive in the punkier contexts of S-K--looms uncomfortably over songs that sound scrapbooked from other '90s-centric acts (Liz Phair, Pavement) but never take on a form of their own.
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