Hole: Nobody's Daughter

Continuing on from her 2004 solo album ‘America’s Sweetheart’, it is clear that Courtney Love has something to prove as she brings back the ‘Hole’ name for her latest album, ‘Nobody’s Daughter’.

Claiming even herself that her one and only solo album reached a disastrous result, Love seems much more pleased with the latest addition to her discography. For those who’ve already heard the album, this is certainly no surprise. With eleven tracks of Love’s haunting voice and incredible lyrical skills, the album was well worth the wait.

Seemingly much more personal than her other music, the album is complete with a song about her late husband, Kurt Cobain. The third song on the album, ‘Honey’, is about her struggle with grief; a song that many doubted would ever arrive after Love stating in interviews for the previous Hole record, ‘Live Through This’, that she never wanted to make a ‘widow record’.

There is no question that Courtney Love has grown and most certainly matured during the prolonged break of Hole and this album is evidence to that. Keeping to her grunge roots, the album would seem incomplete without Love’s screaming on songs such as ‘Skinny Little Bitch’ and ‘Samantha’, yet lyrically, with the help of Smashing Pumpkins lead singer, Billy Corgan and producer, Linda Perry, Love seems to have succeeded in making one of the best rock albums of the year.