Music Review // Courtney Love – You Know My Name/ Wedding Day
Courtney Love is an artist
known for many things. Fortunately, being quiet is not one of them. On this
double A side we see the snarling vocals and pointed lyrics return with a vengeance
that is delightful to have pitched down your headphones. I’ve said it before,
and I’ll say it again, there should be much more music coming from Courtney
Love.
There is enough raw energy
bouncing about in this double a side single to make you wish for more almost
instantly and as ever the topic is resolutely Courtney Love centric. An artist
as resolutely fascinating as Love can get away with this easily and on You Know
My Name she screams and vocal-graffities all over the ether like no one else.
With a reassuringly thumping setting and that truly unique rock and roll scream
she instantly recalls just why there is only one Courtney Love.
An excellent beginning is
followed by the pounding ode to being dumped Wedding Day, a very Love-esque
Dear John that really should be re-classed as a thumping fuck off to the person
brave enough to fuck with the woman who has survived much more than this. The
assertion that she will rise and rise again is not one you could easily
disagree with and thus a long awaited return to music is made.
Sure, there will be haters
but on sheer nerve and resilience alone, Courtney Love already has the ears of
many. Now bring on the album!
(Sebastian Gahan)
