TRACKS:

1.Celebrity Skin
2.Awful
3.Hit So Hard
4.Malibu
5.Reasons To Be Beautiful
6.Dying
7.Use Once & Destroy
8.Nothern Star
9.Boys On the Radio
10.Heaven Tonight
11.Playing Your Song
12.Petals

What has happened to Hole?!? This is not the Hole I remember...Instead of aggressive
and hardcore music we are now greeted with what happens after Courtney Love invades 
Hollywood. Songs like "Teenage Whore" and "Gutless" are history. We now listen to the
sounds of "Malibu", "Heaven Tonight" and "Awful" (which is, by the way, awful). Hole's 
songs are now less truthful and are catchy and easy to listen to. The aggression seems 
to be gone from this band. I am disappointed. After four years of waiting for this album...
Hm. Well, I may be being too hard on the album. It's true that some of it is bad, but it
definitely has moments. "Dying", "Northern Star" and "Petals" may not sound like the old
Hole, but they are interesting and good highlights on the album. One can sense some 
emotion here. "Boys On the Radio is like a remix of "Sugarcoma". So it's a bit familliar. 
Perhaps one has to forget they are listening to Hole to enjoy this album.It's great that 
Courtney has cleaned up her act for her little daughter, and that she can have her life 
back after her drug addiction and the death of Kurt, but I miss the good,traditional, 
hardcore Hole that I grew up with.
RATING: 
 
Maybe 2 1/2?