Albums
Frauhaus!
2009
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2009
By Rebecca Raber
Reviewed February 15, 2010
All-female British trio's sophomore effort celebrates their percussive, atonal foremothers like the Slits, the Raincoats, and LiLiPUT.
The aughts sadly weren't a great decade for women in rock. In the 1990s, women from Riot Grrrl to PJ Harvey made joyously raw, aggressive, and polemical rock, now a much-missed sound. That is what makes Wetdog-- a British all-woman trio whose sophomore effort celebrates their percussive, atonal foremothers like the Slits, the Raincoats, and LiLiPUT-- sound so fresh despite their obvious influences. After all, the girls at home with their videogame plastic Gibsons need Guitar Heroes, too.