WHORE PAINT - SWALLOW MY BONES (LOAD 145)

I GUESS IF PRESSED I WOULD NOT SAY THAT LOAD RECORDS HAS BEEN NOTED FOR ITS STRONG VOCAL FEMINIST STANCE. YES THEY HAVE PRESENTED A NUMBER OF WORKS FROM INTERESTING FEMALE PERSPECTIVES - SCISSOR GIRLS, METALUX, OvO - BUT IT WOULDN'T BE AN UNFAIR CRITIQUE TO SAY THAT LOAD WAS A BIT OF A SAUSAGE PARTY.

WHORE PAINT I GUESS FROM THEIR NAME AND GENERAL APPROACH TO ROCK (SLEATER-KINNEY AN INFLUENCE) ARE ONE GROUP THAT SEEM TO COME FROM A GENE POOL THAT ONCE WAS RIOT GRRL. THERE'S ASPECTS OF THE BLOWN-OUT FURY OF PROVIDENCE ROCK AND ROLL TOO, SO THERE IS A NATURAL FIT HERE AND I'D AVER THEY GOT SIGNED BASED ON THIS RATHER THAN THEIR POLITICS OR GENDER. THE GUITARIST HAS THIS REALLY CRUNCHED OUT SOUND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LOAD 001.

THE RECORD DOES SORT OF FEEL LIKE HALF-AN-ALBUM'S WORTH OF IDEAS STRETCHED OUT TO FULL LENGTH. THEY CAN OBVIOUSLY RIP IT UP AND THE SINGER RANGES BETWEEN THAT RIOT GRRL BELTING TO SOMETHING A BIT MORE ANIMALISTIC WHILE THE DRUMMER ISN'T CHOPPED LIVER IN THERE EITHER. JUST NEEDED A BIT MORE TIME AND A COUPLE MORE IDEAS!