Wild Flag

although i never embraced riotgrrl nor its music, i do enjoy grunge, lived in Seattle just out of highschool. this is an album for someone who wants an infusion of new from the roots of Pacific NorthWest alt-rock.Wild Flag survives,if you are a stickler for vibrato and vocals, skip it. the harmonies are excellent. carrie brownstein has the starpower and sound of young patti smith. mary timony is in a master class of her own, guitar wise. her voice has improved/matured since Helium, she's willing to take more risks, her vocals are an aquired taste. however when the band harmonizes.. after weiss on drums, timony' guitar, the harmonies are my 3rd fave. carrie and mary both on guitar make use of alternate turnings to replace any need for bassist. this much enery and power from a band of 4 is excellent.i give 5 stars because Janet Weiss on drums steals the show.for the drums the best track is 9.racehorse with Carrie giving it her all. the other long track 4. glass tambourine, is mary timony singing. i enjoy her guitar more than her voice.this is not music i usually listen to yet I read a quality review from Britain and decided i needed to hear. glad i did.wonderful these 4 people collaborated as a working, touring band prior to releasing the album. all songs written by Wild Flag.this is on an independent label. its good fun and good rock to dance to.i am about the same age as Mary Timony at the time she fronted, on lead guitar. We both lived in Boston at the time she fronted Helium. Her vocals are better now and her guitar is virtuoso-like'Carrie Brownstein sings all my fave tracks. I buy albums, and very few single tracks. Simply because I want to hear an album the same way I read a book from begining to end.the album art too is important. i want to know the musicians' choices for song sequence, etc.if you want a track taste: skip green tambourine, go for #9racehorse and #10 blacktilesfor fun stuff: #1 romance and #3boom and #7electric bandi dont often write reviews. i only do when necessary. thx.

Okay let's be honest: this is not going to change your life or anything, but it is a solid, honest, rockin' romp and it will be many listens before I tire of it. I have always liked Mary Timony and the music (but not the production, sadly), of Sleater-Kinney (The Woods is a record whose great music is nearly wrecked by the heavy-handed dynamic limiting--the disc has virtually NO dynamic range at all, but I digress....). The production on Wild Flag's CD, however, is delightful. So what do I mean by the word "imperfection" in my title? It is meant as a compliment: there are occasional sloppy guitar riffs, not-quite-together ensemble moments and a bit of singing which we in the biz politely call "pitchy", but doggone it I love it all! I have heard enough recordings on which the performances (if you can even call them performances, what with all the overdubbing, editing, pitch-correction and comping involved), sound like they were stamped out of a factory, all quirks and personality gone; nothing left but sterile perfection that is hardly more interesting than the click tracks they played to. But not here, oh no, these women ROCK and their energy is totally honest. The slight imperfections (and they are slight--just a pinched guitar note here, a not-quite-pitch-perfect vocal note there), are not just acceptable; in my view they are a most welcome commodity. Give me an honest, energetic and fun performance over rote factory perfection ANYTIME. This CD may or may not be great, but it is damn good and I am happy to recommend it.

These gals truly rock.In Wild Flag, Carrie plays the most awesome, rock out guitar (Jimmy Page, anyone?) The other band members are: Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole and Janet Weiss all of whom prove that Rock and Roll is here to stay!It's hard to believe the difference between the rocker Carrie Brownstein and the actress Carrie Brownstein on Portlandia with Fred Armisen. On Portlandia she plays multiple characters, as does Fred Armisen. There are numerous collaborators and actors on Portlandia....check it out: IFC, Friday nights.

Purchased this album when I was greedy for more music like Sleater-Kinney. Wild Flag includes two Sleater-Kinney members, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, and it continues the tradition of women's indie rock in a fulfilling fashion.

This album wasn’t great, and they performed it as such. Then after (1) album they broke up! Ummm... yay???

I really dislike the overuse of "supergroup" to describe this band but if it gets people's attention that cool. I grew up on Helium and Sleater-Kinney and I really love the melding of the two sounds here. (Is it just me or does Short Version sound totally like What Institution Are You From?) I don't buy a lot of albums anymore because I prefer live music but so glad I got this one.While it might not sound new if you listened to the bands above, I hope this introduces a new generation of girls to the riot-grrl sound. While Wild Flag are thoroughly 21st century, they remind me so much more of that era than say, Le Tigre. And I'm totally remembering all my Helium songs from days gone by.

I wanted some new music and after hearing the first couple singles and seeing this for the low price of $5 I decided to jump on it. Not too many uninteresting parts of the album but there are definitely a few songs that shine far brighter than the others. Definitely some good music that isn't like anything else out there right now.

Downloaded this Thursday night and have listened to little else since--according to itunes a total of twelve times (though number thirteen's coming really soon). For those expecting the second coming of Sleater-Kinney, this could be a bit of a disappointment, at first--no Corin, obviously, some different instrumentation (particularly the keyboards, which play a big part in the sound), but, after a few listens you'll probably agree that this is a band that can stand on its own terms, and this album seriously rocks like little else these days.

This album is a high class and top quality variation of the Sleater - Kinney sound (Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss are part of the team). Mary Timony adds a slight psychedelic touch with her vocals and guitars, while Rebecca Cole's keyboards are all but trivial. A must have for all US indie rock fans.

Made by, I'm led to believe, the female members of various American indie slash leftfield bands. But don't let that put you off. Opener 'Romance' brought back sweet memories of 'Plastic Letters' era Blondie and Elastica's eponymous debut LP, and the rest of the record didn't disappoint. We're talking guitars, harmonies, and melody, with the occasional curve ball that someone like Radiohead would throw you.

Après l'album solo de Corin Tucker, les deux autres tiers de Sleater Kinney sortent également de leur torpeur musicale(toute relative pour la batteuse Janet Weiss) pour former un nouveau super groupe de filles rock'n'roll, Wild Flag.L'excitation est bien sûr à son comble mais l'album n'est pas à la hauteur de mes attentes, loin de là.Wild Flag s'écoute il est vrai sans déplaisir et réussit même parfois (mais trop rarement) à faire grimper la tension, à nous embarquer avec lui, à susciter un léger enthousiasme. Pas plus. Le plus souvent, il est assez convenu, ne sachant se démarquer ni par la qualité des compositions, ni par une quelconque "radicalité", ni par ses sonorités.Le plus gênant au fil des écoutes demeure pour moi la production: très efficace, très classique, très commerciale, très déstabilisante. Ca sonne énorme, quand j'aurais souhaité un matériau plus brut et plus intime, plus sauvage. Le patronyme du groupe ment, la sauvagerie est ici domptée, la liberté engluée dans le confort d'un son amical et banal.Quelques riffs de guitare emballants et la voix de Carrie Brownstein ne suffisent hélas pas à masquer la déception ni à donner un autre statut à cet album que celui d'une parenthèse anecdotique et vite oubliée.

Wild Flag consiste en la réunion de musiciennes principalement issues des groupes Sleater-Kinney et Helium. Là où la présence de fortes personnalités aurait pu constituer un obstacle à la créativité de l'ensemble, c'est tout le contraire qui se produit.Les morceaux, chantés alternativement par Carrie Brownstein de Sleater Kinney et Mary Timony d'Helium , sont d'excellente facture, principalement Rock Indé/Garage, mais dans plusieurs d'entre eux se développent des passages psychédéliques de belle facture(Racehorse,Glass Tambourine).L'organiste et la batteuse (mention spéciale) supportent avec l'inspiration nécessaire le beau travail des 2 guitaristes/chanteuses.Bref,un CD qui s'est souvent retrouvé sur ma platine ces dernières semaines

Great record.