Cost: $1.00
I was a bit pissed off after getting this EP because I was familiar with the band and used to have one of their full albums, but no warning signals went off in my brain at all when I saw this. There was a vague familiarity with the band name which I couldn't place, but I saw the Century Media logo and the mention of a Plasmatics cover so I passed it off as some gothic metal act. Now, honestly, since this was only a buck, I would have still bought it just because of the Plasmatics cover, but I was still disappointed I failed to recognize this as Tairrie B.'s latest project.
I find her history as a female rapper to be hilarious on a personal level, but ultimately, I don't care too much. I remember Manhole and Turu Satana from ads in mid '90s 'zine(s) (Pit, I believe?), and I thought they were terrible aggro bands regardless of whether you took her rap career into account or not. My Ruin continues this trend with female Anselmo-wannabe vocals over an uninteresting groovy alterna"metal" base. Coupled with this are cringeworthy ham-fisted (pun intended) lyrics about female self-image acceptance. If there was ever a band for angsty ostracized fat girls, this is it. The cover of "Sex Junkie" is musically okay, but whereas the original had a very snotty punk vibe, the ultra-forced vocals just steamroll over what little worth is here.
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