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Feminist Sweepstakes Image
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: Kathleen Hanna (also of Bikini Kill) returns for her second album with Le Tigre, the follow-up to the band's well-received 1999 debut.

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Well, Well, Well
Uh huh. Got to, wanna, got to. wanna, Raise your hand. Raise your voice. Raise your head. Up off the desk. Look who's here. Well well well. Guess... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Le Tigre meld cheesy lo-fi electronica, garagey hip-hop, cerebral sound collage, and new-wavey songcraft into infectious, stripped-down tunes.
  2. Mojo
    90
    Protest music that doesn't protest too much -- a music with such a joy and wit to its outrage that it acquires a universality beyond its subject matter. [Nov 2001, p.98]
  3. Uncut
    80
    The catchiest lesson in sexual politics you're likely to hear this season. [Dec 2001, p.111]
  4. That unholy alliance of punk guitar and drum machine now shows off the organic contours of "real" band interaction -- check out how smoothly they funkify with one another on "Fake French."
  5. Mixer
    70
    Isn't as ambitious or effective as the trio's genre-smashing debut, but it should still keep dancefloors and mosh pits sweaty all year. [Jan 2002, p.74]
  6. Lacking some of its predecessor's musical inventiveness, Feminist Sweepstakes revisits similar terrain, but Hanna's increasing bitterness makes it hard to tell whether even she believes what she's saying.
  7. Q Magazine
    60
    Feminist Sweepstakes is a clever, catchy Day-Glo riot that anyone can join. [#184, p.140]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Sep 16, 2022
    9
    One of their best albums besides their self titled one! I love how it goes from calm to crazy!
  2. WodekS.
    Oct 25, 2001
    8
    Hammond organ and sexy vocals. Smart women you'd want to talk to. A triumph.