"The message behind Melissa Auf der Maur's debut solo album is
unmistakeable. 'Come to me' she demands of her listener in the grunge
rock, orally fixated track "Taste You". Her faux submissive lyrics
belie a dominatrix whose angst seeps from the same vein as Courtney
Love's."
bbc.co.uk
"Melissa has delivered a hugely sexual, gleefully psychedelic rock
record that's so full of deliciously melancholic stadium destroyers and
beautifully de-tuned melodic bombs that, at the perfectly reasonable
age of 32, you get the impression that the really good stuff is only
just beginning."
nme.com
"Filled with plenty of hard-rock guitar, including a tip-of-the-cap
metal "horse galloping"-type rhythm guitar riff in "Skin receiver"
("Keep yourself alive" by Queen comes to mind, although I know it's not
the best example), but also with lots of music-geek-worthy melodic
touches AND the occasional "what the hell was that?" atonal weirdness,
this album comes close to being all things for all people (well, all
rock people at least)."
blogcritics.org
"The effort is filled with soothing vocals, clasping guitars and plenty
of low-fi basslines that brings a sense of darkness to the helm.
Although relatively timid on the ears there's plenty vigour and fresh
energy that brims a dark thrusting serve of modern rock. "
anemicmagazine.com
"Auf der Maur's "ornate wall of sound" is perfectly complemented by her
firmly sexy vocals (a voice that somehow conjures up images of a strict
but gorgeous young schoolmistress that every young boy had a crush on)."
eyeballkid.com
"Europes Rock and Roll Queen Melissa Auf Der Maur gives a album filled
with fresh sounding Rock and Roll. While Melissa has been the bass
player for other bands she proves she has what it takes to run the
show. "
entertainmentworld.us
"Melissa Auf Der Maur has created a sound unlike anything else that's out there right now, and I'm loving every bit of it."
i-mokcery.com
"Melissa has effortlessly created an album full of lush dynamics, thick
guitars and catchy choruses. Applaud one and all...for here is one of
the best rock albums of the past twelve months...This album swings
harmoniously between a slow comfortable screw and a faceless terrorist.
Wonderful stuff. "
the-raft.com
"fortunately this babe can wail. Right off the bat on "Lightning is my
Girl," Auf Der Maur shows that her voice can carry this hard rock
symphony; sounding almost like Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon. "Followed the
Waves" is an excellent hard rocker, but Auf Der Maur shows that on
tracks like "Taste You" and "I'll Be Anything You Want" that her forte
is singing on poppier rock tunes. But don't fear, if it's rock you
want, it's rock your gonna get with this album. Auf Der Maur proves her
worth to the rock world once and for all on this excellent debut."
zboneman.com
"It's simply a very good rock album, with lots of nice heavy guitars
and the low, droning voice of Auf der Maur in the center of it all. "
releasemagazine.net
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