Le Tigre

Really enjoyed this, reminded me of Amyl and the Sniffers. Great energy, great vibe!

I didn't know this artist from their name. Then straight off the bat, two big hits open the album that I did know. After that, just 90s indie. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆(6/10) Total reviewed : 456 Already owned : 99 Purchased : 25 To buy : 3 Nope : 329

Despite being (deliberately) discordant in style, this grew on me faster than I expected! I think she is really suited for this kind of vocal.

4.5/5

I got nothing. Fun album though.

Just another terrible punk album full of bad singing and uncreative songs spliced with grating noises. Bad.

This music is ass and no one would care about it if it weren't buoyed by feminist messaging.

I listened to this in the shower and actually liked it a lot!!!

Really idiosyncratic and unabashedly itself. I thought the vocals could get kinda tired at times though, and I wasn’t huge on every song—one thing about Le Tigre is they will repeat the same line over, and over, and then over again. Many of the songs won me over, but enough didn’t to land me at a four. STAND-OUT SONG: “Deceptacon” HONORABLE MENTIONS: “Phanta,” “Let’s Run,” “Hot Topic,” “Eau D’ Bedroom Dancing”

I never had a physical copy of this album but I did listen to the shit out of this when I downloaded this as an MP3. I ended up going through a riot grrrl phase directly because of this album, sometime around 2001, of course well after that scene had all but ended. Still, I remember this time in my life fondly and this album dernière formed part of that soundtrack

Decepticon

Fun

Standard late 90s garage rock/indie

enjoyed it way more than expected. whats your take on cassavetes?

fuck yeahhhhh i liked this way more than i did the first time i listened a couple years ago. really good energy.

Another one of the Riot Grrrl movement, with one member of Bikini Kill in it. Weird combo of electronic and punk, but at the same time, it kinda works for them. 3/5. It’s not something that I’m gonna put in my rotation, but if it plays, I won’t skip it. Deceptacon: 3,5 Hot Topic: 3 What's Yr Take on Cassavetes: 3 The The Empty: 3,5 Phanta: 3 Eau d'Bedroom Dancing: 2 Let's Run: 3,5 My My Metrocard: 3,5 Friendship Station: 3 Slideshow at Free University: 2 Dude. Yr So Crazy!: 2 Les and Ray: 3

Really enjoyed this. Can see a definite influence on bands like Wet Leg, although Le Tigre have a much broader palette. I can hear touches of both the Breeders and Joy Division on some tracks

Really fun

Perfect blend of new wave synth and girl-punk. Edgy and sweet, Le Tigre is the perfect album for your lipstick rage! Definitely adding to my Playlist!

Nice enough but derivative and forgettable as well as slightly irritating.

This is another 3.5 for me. It has some fun and creative moments, and the mix of 60's rock, new wave, and punk is cool and does really make something very engaging through much of the album, but the lyrics are really lacking, and some of the songs feel like silly filler or first drafts of songs that could have been better if they were in the hopper longer. However, I do feel like the concept and execution should be rewarded with rounding up to 4 on this scale.

Deceptacon is great and then it’s annoying

Cant all live up to the opening track but actually pretty fun and didnt get annoying as I feared it might

It's not a band, it's a movement. Really good album from a band that through their roots gave a tonne of influence. I like play in production with the beats and electronica over the punk. It does kind of time stamp it, it holds up though.

This thing is from 1999 but sounds a 2010 decade album, avant garde if I've ever heard it 👌

Sound: Lo-fi, scrappy Lyrics: Irreverent, catchy Highs: "Deceptacon," "The The Empty," "Phanta" Lows: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?," "Dude Yr So Crazy!!"

Bra attityd och catchy ösiga låtar!

Kände mest till dem från öppningsspåret, men resten av albumet var också kul och stökigt på det bästa sättet!

Nice ba!

ох тікток музика аєахахах ну хай буде теж 3

Fucking DREADFUL. Blondie but somehow worse.

i enjoyed this one a lot. i really like the vocals and lyrics, and the distorted guitars, cheap-sounding synths and drum machines are a fun combo that gives it a much more lo-fi feel than the production would otherwise suggest. plus its kinda dance punk with it, and im always down for some good dance punk. i think my favourite tracks are "what's yr take on cassavettes", "let's run" and "dude yr so crazy!!", but "the the empty" and "eau d'bedroom dancing" are both great too. its not quite giving the "i literally love music reaction" so its not quite a 5 for me, but god is it close. maybe with a few more listens it'll get there..

Sjovt. Snakkede om LdTigre for en uge side med en makker som aldrig har hørt Deceptacon før. Glædeligt at se dem på listen. Albummet peaker dog også lige dér. Men Hey bekini kill punk i elektro punk stil, ja tak.

Det er fucking fedt. Dance-Punk. Jeg kan bedst beskrive det som hvis B-52 var et punkband.

Interesting album, has some highs and lows.

Snotty feminist political punk pop music for confused teenage girls. I didn't mind some of the electronic elements, it was the vocals and constant repetition of lyrics which got annoying in the already short song lengths. This came off as another try hard hipster political statement wanting to be edgy and meaningful. Gender doesn't determine capabilities or quality of music it's your ability to write good songs and not make the message the most important thing.

Surprised this is from ‘98 as it sounds more 80s punk… this was fine but not amazing, even though on paper I should like it more. 2.75/5

At times this sounds like a teenagers first album, sounding like it was entirely made with garageband and passion. Some solid sampling is introducing some variety in between the more minimalist songs. Overall very fun to listen to!

this was actually quite cool!!

Well I think I just watched a profanity laced Romper Room program with the clown from It. Some tunes were tolerable but another album that's not on my bucket list.

7/10

aura album

Gran bell'album. Potente, aggressivo ma anche molto orecchiabile e con dei riff molto accattivanti

One of the most unique-sounding albums on the whole list, at least to my ears. Electroclash bands can get partway there, but they miss out on the additional bits of riot grrrl and even twee pop that make this one such a blast to listen to. If you only listen to one album that Kathleen Hanna was involved with, this is absolutely the one to make it.

If it were 1979 I probably would've loved it.

I love the crazy girl power punk vibe. Its different funky and rockin. Its off the wall at times but very punk

I really enjoyed this on first listen and after a second, I'm giving it a 5. I love their vibe and DGAF attitude, and their songs are so freaking catchy and quirky. These gals rock.

Iconic

People who think this is a 1 star album and people who think this is a 5 star album are locked in an eternal conflict over who can be the most annoying. Right now the 1 star team are running away with it.

Cool stuff. Not sure I needed the full album, but I liked a few songs.

Okay tbh I’m not really giving this a fair listen I don’t think bc I am REALLY having the urge to listen to nausica (love will be revealed). I do think it’s a really interesting an fun album though and even a bit politically charged at times. I will also say the guitar melodies are super good. This was decent for me I’d say, there were some songs I liked and some that annoyed me a bit like in the last one where the singers voice is really tinny and then there’s like bells or something (idk what but it’s like a ding ding sound😭) that like does not go well with what she’s doing with her voice at all to me. Tbh not really something I’d return to, 2.7889/5

3,7

yucky

Fun electronic rhythms. The shouty vocals get a bit much though.

Great feminist dance-punk brought to you by one of the minds behind Bikini Kill. What’s not to love?

Fun listen, will definitely listen again

Pretty decent record all in all.

Fun! Interesting lyrics, interesting sound.

This album is a blast. It's original, diverse, and just an all around good time. Starts off great with "Deceptacon" and "Hot Topic" and gets weirder with songs like "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes" and "Phanta." Sometimes sounding like something from Sesame Street, sometimes aggressive, always entertaining. I especially like the story songs like "Phanta" and "My My Metrocard." One of the better discoveries on the list.

Really enjoyable. Cant start an album with a punchier track than Deceptacon. Reminds me more of Pixies or The Breeders on some tracks than Bikini Kill's stuff, they came up with a ton of fun riffs for this. Goes outside of the alt punk lens too and gets a little funky with a hip hop influence on songs like Friendship. And they were right about Guiliani

This album was fine at best, not a fan. I didn't hate it, but there was no part of me that liked it either. Maybe a 2.5?

Very bad vocal performance, musically good. Bonus points for being all women. 3/5

solid

Fairly enjoyable riotgrrl

Very unique voice. Great underlying music.

Deceptacon is a 6 star song - wish the rest of the album was silly like that. It’s definitely all fun and high energy but there’s a lot more like name checking important women and musicians than I would like. I think that’s the point maybe? Like it is political which is cool. But it’s kinda the lame side of punk that’s just very earnest as opposed to the fun stupid part of punk. But whatever I had a good time.

tough one for me to rate: felt like every track had some groovy part I liked, but also some super irritating aspect as well. overall it was nice to this kinda semi-ironic alt-girl-power-noise-pop thing, potshots at Giuliani, and simplistic synth rock beats. but also it felt like a third of it was some dissonant backing track with random semi slam poetry chants or listing activists' names.

It’s generally unpleasant. Poor recording quality, vocals buried in the mix, samples from speeches or movies or something. It’s not an album I find compelling, which honestly I imagine they’d be pleased to hear.

SO FUN. only knew the first song ‘deceptacon’, all bangers. loved

Wonderful album. Very glad I had the opportunity to listen to the full thing.

I've heard Deceptacon before and love it. Its a regular in my rotation so I'm rly glad to actually finish the whole album. It's so good. The lyricism is so clever and meaningful while the music is interesting while not overshadowing the unique vocals. I particularly love Eau D'Bedroom Dancing, Deceptacon (obviously), and What's Yr Take On Cassavetes?.

Есть несколько более-менее внятных вещей, но остальное шум 5/10

angsty and fun asf. love this type of punk its so good

Hard to tell if the cruddy lo-fi sound of this record is a deliberate artistic statement or the result of running out of money, but the resulting product is a dreadfully-mixed set of repetitious jams that could have easily been cooked up in someone's garage on a rainy afternoon. Only "Eau d'bedroon Dancing" actually conjures any sense of mystery; everything else here just chases its own tail.

i won't lie, much better than i was expecting it to be

Oh man. Bikini Kill used to be one of my favorite bands, but I’ve never been a huge fan of Le Tigre, or Kathleen Hanna’s other project, The Julie Ruin. I’ve also had some problems with Hanna’s tendencies to write cookie-cutter political songs. I don’t think she started off that way, and Bikini Kill was extremely revolutionary, but over time much of the messaging became very…well, just go listen to that Hilary Clinton song Le Tigre made. (Though, to be clear, it was a problem even before that single.) The album begins with the explosive “Deceptacon,” which has a fantastic vocal performance and a great synth hook. It’s a diss track, aimed at the band NOFX for their song accusing Hanna and the riot grrrl movement of simply being man-haters. That’s really the cherry on top for me, as I despise NOFX. There’s then an excellent transition into “Hot Topic,” which lists several dozen influential feminist and LGBTQ figures over danceable drums and some crunchy guitar. The first half features overlapping, energetic vocals that then fade away into the sounds of people shouting names at random, panned all over the place. It’s one of the most celebratory songs you’ll ever hear. “What’s Yr Take On Cassavates?” opens with a sleepy spoken word and guitar riff, before delving into a catchy but repetitive track—once more with those “off stage” vocals. I can’t say that it’s amazing, but it certainly has a vibe to it. “The the Empty” absolutely rocks, with shrieky vocals and aggressive guitar and percussion. It’s the closest this album gets to sounding like Bikini Kill. Le Tigre is excellent at making disjointed elements come together to form a hypnotic, cohesive whole, and this song does that quite well. Then there’s “Phanta,” which sounds like it was made on another planet. It’s fun and apocalyptic, with the closest this thing gets to a pop melody. The synth is addicting and the chaotic build-up that leads to the sudden ending is well-done and hilarious. “Eu D’ Bedroom Dancing” has some surprisingly atmospheric production, with murky guitar, and sharp-but-spacey synth. The vocals are mellow and really make the vulnerable lyrics shine. My one complaint is that the synth sound gets grating, and can distract from the vocals, which in turn distracts from the lyrics. Things immediately take a turn with “Let’s Run,” which has an urgently catchy riff and goes back to Hanna’s usual vocal style. This may be one of her best vocal performances (though not better than Deceptacon.) Once more, the synth does get grating, but it’s not enough to make it a bad song. “My My Metrocard” has a great hook and is danceable as hell. Once again, it does show some weaknesses in the mix, but—once again—it doesn’t overshadow the song. I understand that it is lo-fi. Punk is my favorite genre; I’m used to way more lo-fi than this, even. That said, many of the issues seem to come from misguided creative decisions rather than lack of money or equipment. “Friendship Station” is probably the weakest song on the album. It’s not angry enough to rock but it’s not quite danceable, either. That said, it’s not awful or anything. It’s just a bit of a low point. “Slideshow At Free University” opens with some of the best production yet. The percussion is excellent. It sounds like elevator music on LSD. The dystopian vocals fit perfectly into the flow of the album as a whole, and adds to the feeling that this album is from an alternate timeline. Seriously. I’ve never heard anything like it. There’s then a great transition into “Dude Yr So Crazy,” which features imagery-heavy spoken word over a minimalist beat, with the building sounds of rumbling instrumentals adding to the apocalyptic feel. It’s very much a companion to “Slideshow At Free University,” which is nice. “Les and Ray” is nice but doesn’t particularly stick out. It has a retro feel that just barely works, and some underwater guitar acting as a pretty good backbone to the whole thing. I do love the contrast between it and the bright xylophone-esque sounds. It’s also a bit odd as a closer. It just kinda…ended. That said, it did make for a nice change in pace, so I don’t hate it. I do think that the album could’ve ended with “Dude Yr So Crazy,” though. While I clearly have my gripes with this album, it’s too unique and experimental to be bad in any way. I actually considered a five, but I couldn’t quite give it that. However, it’s a very high four. And I do think this was an excellent pivot for Hanna, as well as the last of the good music she’s made. I’d probably put this as one of the best dance-punk albums of all time.

Sounds like something I'd enjoy, shame that they dont have much more than 3 albums worth of stuff to hear.

Frauen, die sauer klingen 👍

I of course knew the song Deceptacon but had never listened to this record. Really great, tight album. Very digestible. I played it twice in a row and thoroughly enjoyed it. I really dig the songwriting and the punkish electro instrumentals.

Wowww the energy! This is a great new wave post punk record! What an awesome way to repackage 80s music and bring it to a new generation.

416/1089 trying to work out which advert i’ve heard Deceptacon on (i’m thinking probably iphone/smart phone?? or google) the music very much feels like the precursor to Wet Leg which I quite enjoy There were some highlights in here and i did like the rest of the songs too but i do think i have the same issue with this as i’ve had with Wet Leg where their hits HIT but the rest of the songs sort of still continue the good vibe but don’t build on it or stand out faves: Deceptacon, Let’s Run, Les and Ray, My My Metrocard 76/100

1. deceptacon - 3 2. hot - 1 3. take - 1 4. empty - 1 5. fanta - 1 6. bed - 2 7. run - 2 8. metro - 1 9. friend - 1 10. zlide - 2 11. dude - 2 12. ray - 1

My girlfriend and I blasted the shit out of this CD when it came out. She was really into Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, etc. I caught wind of this project during a weekly 2-hour slot DJing for a college radio station. A lot of the references went over my head at the time, but the mix of lo-fi punk, new wave and indie dance music was a breath of fresh air in '99.

Literally so amazing. Let’s run fr.

This album goes hard with an IPA in Bushwick dive bar

I discovered Le Tigre by accident, through the kind of metadata failure that now feels almost quaint. Somebody sent me an MP3 of L’Trimm’s “Cars with the Boom” labelled as Le Tigre. Yeah, I know. I went looking to see what else this apparently very confused band had done, and found something far more to my taste: feminist agitprop, cheap electronics, municipal politics and all. Only afterwards did I realise Kathleen Hanna was that Kathleen Hanna. I already knew Bikini Kill, riot grrrl and the Pacific Northwest context, but Le Tigre reached me first as its own thing. That turned out to be useful, because I heard reinvention before I heard continuity. There is a line I can draw from The Slits’ Cut, through Le Tigre, to Sleaford Mods’ Divide and Exit. None of those records is an origin document. The Slits had already toured successfully. Hanna had already torn through the Pacific Northwest scene. Jason Williamson had spent years trying to make bands work, with the right instinct and the wrong ingredients. What unites the three records is the joy of experienced people discovering how much they can throw away. That is the Sniffin’ Glue principle in mature form. You do not need permission, you do not need approved technique, and you probably need less equipment than you think. The crucial difference is that these are people who already know the rules before deciding which ones are useless. Le Tigre is full of cheap drum machines, low-resolution samples, clipped guitar, chants and deliberately crude textures, but the crudity is not a failure of finish. It is the method. And the method produces joy. That matters more than any individual slogan. The album takes feminism, artistic argument, failure, bad masculinity, civic life and public transport and refuses to make any of them feel like homework. It can turn a roll call into a dancefloor, reduce a supposedly sophisticated argument to people barking positions at one another (before it literally happens), or make bus-and-subway provision feel like a radical political concept. The politics works because it is embedded in pleasure. Again and again the album returns to space: who gets to occupy it, who gets watched in it, and what freedom feels like when nobody is looking. Hanna had already explored that militantly with Bikini Kill by changing the room itself, pushing men back and inviting women forward. Le Tigre continues the same argument through different means. There is liberation in the crowd and liberation in dancing alone in your bedroom, but there is an uncomfortable mismatch between the two because public space has so often been treated as male territory. That same politics extends outwards into the city. Public transport is freedom. It determines who can work, socialise, participate and simply get out of their immediate orbit without asking someone with a car for permission. Living somewhere with poor public transport makes the inverse painfully obvious: people’s worlds close inward. Le Tigre understand that civic freedom can be as ordinary as whether there is a bus. The record also has a strong modernist streak: art as intervention, communication and useful thought rather than decoration. Simple expression of complex ideas. Use whatever medium works. A sampler, a slide projector, a chant, a toy-piano clang: none is inherently lesser than the supposedly serious alternative. Then “Les and Ray” quietly reveals the gentlest version of the same worldview. Hanna remembers neighbours whose music seeped through the wall when she was a child and gave her a sense that another kind of adult world existed nearby. The boundary remained, but culture, kindness and possibility passed through it. Safety was not created by guarding the boundary more aggressively. It was created by people living near one another in ways that made the world feel larger. Live through the boundaries because we are better unbound. Le Tigre is funny, scratchy, argumentative, tender and ridiculously alive. More than anything, it understands the joy of reinvention: not becoming a beginner again, but discovering that many of the rules you learned were optional in the first place.

My friends in college who knew my music taste insisted I would love Le Tigre, and I just could not get into them at all. Revisiting them today though, gave me a much more positive opinion. They're definitely melodically off putting at times, but I can finally see the appeal and enjoyed it myself.

Fun album. I don't think I had every listened to it before so that was fun. Really enjoyed the first song.

This was actually quite fun, but not too memorable for me personally

A lot of people in a group that shares their generator progress and likes music all liked that I got this album. Its a pretty smartly made lyrically female punk album that I liked a little better than the other female punk albums of the 90s. I didn't know anything about this group for whatever reason and it was overall a solid listen. Pretty darn good debut album.

Kinda cool but not 4 stars cool

Sleater Kinney with a Go-Gos glow up.

тут все плотно есть свой стиль, они его используют, иногда это заметно, что они в его рамках драйвово, красиво, хитово, плотно такое буду переслушивать переслушал, хороших треков оказалось меньше чем я думал 3.2

Fuck ya

Like it bratty and fun.

🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

Exceeded expectations. More electronic than I tend to go for but great rhythm and cool instrumentation. Quirky interesting lyrics. Not totally consistent- I found Sideshow at Free University a little disappointing but overall I really enjoyed it.

I borrowed this cd about 20 years ago from a friend, and enhoyed it. I haven't thought much about it in quite a while. This style is not usually my thing, but I like this album. It's an engaging, charming, and otherwise excellent instance of the 90s DIY aesthetic. There's an inspired amateur quality to it that I enjoy. The songs feel spontaneous; nobody's overthinking snything here. . The lyrics of Deceptacon are offbeat and at times very funny. (The "linoleum" verse, the refrain.) The John Cassavetes song is wacky, and the effect of its spoken intro leading into this esoteric question is very funny. Good album! I'm not sure it's one you need to listen to before, etc., but it's definitely good to know about it. Anyone who likes this album really ought to check out Slumber Party (start with the self titled 2000 album; it's their best). Not as confrontational, musically or lyrically, but to my mind a related sound.

If this album had come out in 1991 I guarantee my friend Mark and I would have listened to it a lot and agreed it was awesome. Now that I'm a woman of a certain age... this record is not to my taste. There were glimpses of songs that I could enjoy, even at my advanced age, like Friendship Station and Eau d'Bedroom Dancing, and Slideshow at Free University, etc. But overall I cannot imagine ever deliberately choosing to listen to this record again. It's no longer scratching an itch that feels very urgent. On the plus side, it was very short.

Kathleen Hanna, take me away to this wonderful land where riot grrrrrls dance with abandon and live and love among some crazy beats. Great fun this one!