New Hole Album Confirmed for April

Courtney Love proceeds with the master plan.

By Blurt Staff

Last year a new Courtney Love album titled Nobody's Daughter leaked pretty handily to the internet. As we reported at the time, it had been pushed back so many times that bloggers decided to take matters into their own hands, even creating artwork for the "album."

The Music Of Your Life blog, for example, posted the entire thing in MP3 format, although the Blogger.com blog in question has since been removed, so if you follow the link you'll eventually hit a dead end. Try a Torrent site instead. We nabbed the record in time... it's okay, but nothing special. Even presuming that some of the 11 tracks we've heard were at the time works in progress, there's nothing about it that suggests it will be setting the world on fire. Titles include "Pacific Coast Highway," "Letter To God," "Dirty Girls" and "Stand Up Motherfucker" so it's sorta Love-by-numbers, in fact.

Anyhow, Spin reports now that the five-years-in-the-making record is now due on April 27 from Mercury/IDJ, and instead of being a Courtney Love product, as La Love herself threatened awhile back, it's billed as a Hole album - much to original guitarist Eric Erlandson's dismay, who has told the media he's not too pleased.

Spin adds that the current Hole lineup "includes Love's roommate, 23-year-old British guitarist Micko Larkin, bassist Shawn Dailey (of Rock Kills Kid), and drummer Stuart Fisher. Jack Irons, formerly of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, played drums on the album." And erstwhile Love collaborators Billy Corgan, Linda Perry and Michael Beinhorn are nowhere in sight.

"One time, Frances was being mean and she said, 'What are you going to do if this record fails?'" Love is quoted as telling Spin. "Well, Frances, it can't fail because I love it, and I've worked really hard to make sure that I love it."

Altogether now... awwwww....