Auf der Maur by Auf Der Maur

Auf der Maur, the 2004 debut from Canadian bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, gathers up a decade of songs she'd been writing since 1992, through her days in Tinker, Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, and finally puts her own name on them. She and producer Chris Goss spent two years chasing it through studios across the United States and Canada, and Capitol put it out.

The guest list reads like an alt-rock yearbook: old bandmates Eric Erlandson and James Iha, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Jeordie White, John Stanier. But this is stranger and more adventurous than anything she did as a sidewoman, all slow-rolling riffs, proggy detours and her own airy vocals floating over the rumble. "Followed the Waves" was the song that pulled people in, and it and "Real a Lie" both made the UK singles chart.

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