Cadallaca
Introducing...
(K)
Supergroups. The CD stores are lousy with 'em these days,
as rockers across
the aesthetic spectrum team up to fight boredom,
artistic stagnation and the increasingly
sluggish release schedules
favored by the record companies. But the simple fact is a
majority
of them aren't up to snuff, and many end up as soulless, aimless
genre
exercises that fail to fire off any real sparks. So when
a friend of mine insisted I
borrow the debut by Cadallaca, and
went on to describe it as "a grrrl group doing a
girl group
thing," I smelled trouble. Fortunately, my friend knows as much about girl groups (and
grrrl groups) as he knows
about quantum physics. What Introducing Cadallaca offers up in actuality, from its
kiss-off to
a booker to the one about love-as-a-Gameboy, is a genuine blast
of
Washington State grrrl power, propelled from start to finish
by its finest practitioner,
Corin Tucker. With Sarah Dougher's
organ standing in for Carrie Brownstein's guitar,
Cadallaca might
lack some of the tension-and-release you'd expect from a full-fledged
SK outing. But if tension- and-release is the only thing that
brings you to music
like this, you're missing the point.
Rating: 9
See also
Sleater-Kinney.
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