Coral Fang by The Distillers

Coral Fang, the third album from the Distillers, came out on Sire Records in 2003 as the Los Angeles punk band's major-label debut, following Sing Sing Death House. Gil Norton produced, giving them a bigger, sharper punch without scrubbing away the grime. At the center stands Brody Dalle, the Australian singer and guitarist who founded the band in 1998 and co-wrote, sang and played guitar on nearly everything they recorded, with Tony Bevilacqua on guitar beside her and Andy Granelli also in the lineup.

Dalle's voice is the whole weapon here, a raw, gravel-edged howl that turns every chorus into a brawl, and "Drain the Blood" hits like a bottle across the bar. The band broke up in 2006, Dalle and Bevilacqua went on to form Spinnerette, and even after the Distillers reformed in 2018, Coral Fang remained their most recent album.

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