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- Summary: The solo debut from The Indigo Girls' Amy Ray is a bit of a departure from her band's folk sound, instead offering a harder, punk-rock edge. Joan Jett is among the guests appearing on the album.
- Record Label: Daemon
- Genre(s): Rock, Punk
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For those who only know Amy Ray as an Indigo Girl, or as a socially active label owner will find this record a snarling, beautiful surprise.
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An extraordinarily potent recording, one that will likely be among 2001's best.
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Stag is punk done in the tradition of Patti Smith and the Replacements rather than the Sex Pistols. It is punk in its rebellious spirit, its contagious energy, and its anti-establishment calls to action. More than that, though, it is pure Amy Ray -- her activism and her artistry melding and achieving something remarkable.
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It's too bad this independently released album will most likely fall through the commercial cracks, because Stag is one of those rare albums that fuses aggression, good music and sharp institutional critiques without sounding strident or, um, stiff.
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Angry, bold, pointed and eclectic as hell, Stag suggests that Nirvana and Sleater-Kinney are just as important to Ray as Simon and Garfunkel.
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Stag is a diverse non-Indigo mix (the only song that makes me go hmmm starts, "She brings me Spanish clementines, I eat them by the waterside"), intermingling Ray's canny ear for melody with a lo-fi, raw sensibility and attitude aplenty.
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Alternative PressStag for the most part rocks with biting fierceness and vibrant energy. [#155, p.81]
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