J.K. Rowling Reviews Violent Femmes’ Debut Album

J.K. Rowling has reviewed Violent Femmes’ 1983 self-titled debut LP as part of Ruth and Martin’s Album Club, a Tumblr where guests discuss a critically acclaimed album they’ve never heard, as NME points out. During the course of her review, Rowling listened to the album three times, and on her first listen she found the acoustic guitar riffs “catchy,” but wrote that Gordon Gano’s vocals gave her the “immediate, visceral response of ‘no, scratch everything, I hate this.’”

On a second listen, the album started to win her over. She compared Gano’s vocals to Lou Reed’s, and she complimented the “nice bit of bluesy slide guitar and an actual xylophone on ‘Gone Daddy Gone.’” She concludes that on “the third listen, I realized that I loved the album.” Rowling said she would listen to it again, and she gives the album an 8.5 out 10.

The Tumblr post also includes an interview with Rowling that discusses her early musical history, as well as a list of some of her favorite albums. Those include the Beatles’ Revolver, Marianne Faithful’s Broken English, and the Velvet Underground’s White Light, White Heat. Check out the whole post here.

Revisit Violent Femmes’ music video for “Gone Daddy Gone”: 

 

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