The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset album review: bursting with sonic treats

The music career of Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna continues apace, the woman refusing to kowtow to late-stage Lyme disease, a long-undiagnosed condition that buckled her femme-pop-disco band, Le Tigre several years ago.

Now officially Lyme-free, Hanna has decided to revisit and reinvigorate an erstwhile alter ego band (the first Julie Ruin album was released in 1998) and to get stuck in again.

This is a good thing, because Hit Reset is chockablock with ideas and approaches, logical irritations and reasoned disquiet. It's also fit to bursting with the kind of sonic treats that made Hanna's previous bands such pivotal touchstones for so many: punk-rock supplemented with bubblegum pop, classic 1960s female group harmonies, a hint of funk, and a soupçon of electro/synth.

Welcome back, ma’am.

[ thejulieruin.com ]