Screaming Females singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster, in a move that reminds me of the “I’m bored, time to put out a record”-isms of Robert Pollard, decided to preempt the upcoming release of her full-time band Screaming Females new album by releasing a solo platter as Noun.

I can’t speak to the rest of the record, but on “Brother,” her diction and enunciation is absolutely fucking superb, I feel weird pointing that out. But it’s true. Paternoster has a pretty original vocal style, veering from a deceptively young-sounding coyness to an all-out heroic Danzig-esque (in Samhain) bellow. What? Yes! The music goes sfrom a sludgy, Melvins-esque creepy crawl to a Slinty-restrained strum simmer. We like.

Listen to/Download Brother.

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