Though The Distillers’ days are over, I was stoked about her new project, Spinnerette. I had the self-titled album on repeat for the majority of my sophomore year of college. Her undistressed voice shines through, but there is still plenty of grit to go around. “Ghetto Love” is a prime example. You get her sultry voice and you get that gritty, sexy roar of “HEY!” in the chorus that made us fall in love with her in the first place. Perfect combo in my opinion, (another reason why I loved P!nk in her hayday of Try This and I’m Not Dead, and a reason why I love Taylor Momsen).

 

“Baptized By Fire” was one of the obvious hits since you see a rare side of Brody. Her vocals soar skywards, and the screaming punk badass within her backs off, but in true Brody fashion, it’s never left far behind.

 

“Impaler” is another fave since it’s starts off with an almost country sounding, jangly guitar. I love how it catches you off guard, but again, her soft, dark voice bleeds in perfectly as other effects and instruments, like violins and electric guitars, start building into the instrumental backing tracks.

After Spinnerette’s short lived, three-years-a-band life that ended in 2010, Brody is back, four years later, with a solo project. Her song “Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy” was released today, and the backing vocals are done by none other than the feisty, redheaded Garbage frontwoman, Shirley Manson. Brody is aging gracefully, both physically, (I mean look at her, she’s gorgeous! I’m straight, but I’m totally in fucking love with this woman), and in lyricism and style. 

 

The song starts off with a driving but distorted drum beat and bass riff, and Brody’s haunting, dark vocals pop right in to make us melt within our chairs after our long anticipated wait. The lyrics “You have sailed through the eye of my needle/ A perfect parasite burgeoning Eden... Sh-sh-shot through the heart, baby/ I’m gonna love you forever” shows off her wiser, refined lyrical poetry. But don’t worry, the song closes out with classic Brody grit in the “Oh, ah, oh’s” and the distorted driving drums leave you with a Distiller’s taste in your mouth that will make you reminisce and immediately throw on her career kick-starting band next.