StarCat/CatStar

Elsewhere, self-loathing, corrupted family dynamics, and vindictiveness
toward men all feature rather frighteningly.
The album, indeed, is steeped in horror; it plays like the soundtrack to a
slasher film and yet has psychological terror at its core.
Babes in Toyland were not explicitly riot grrrls, but they caused riotous
rifts in the male-dominated punk/grunge scene, with their audacious
refusal to yield to standards of decorousness hypocritically implied for
female artists. They turned the "idealized female" concept on its dastardly
head sartorially, sonically, and lyrically. They toyed with the sexist
expectations of their gender in a landscape littered with provincial
misogyny.
Long reign the Babes.
Editor’s note: This review was first published in Literary Orphans,
Issue 21