Ex-HOLE
and SMASHING
PUMPKINS bassist MELISSA AUF DER MAUR has
completed 12 songs on her "very heavy and very beautiful" solo album.
As previously reported, Auf Der Maur has been working on her
new album, due for release later this year. She told MTV news
that she is hoping to recruit her friend
Rufus
Wainwright to contribute to the sessions.
Speaking about the record, she commented: "It's very, very heavy and very
beautiful at the same time. The muscle of heavy masculine smothered with very,
very ethereal femininity.
"I definitely relate more to a particular genre of heavy, male music, but it
happens to be a heavy male music that is very feminine from my perspective, such
as Queens Of The Stone
Age and
Smashing
Pumpkins. Those are two heavy bands that have very
feminine sides. All of us are half men and half women — we have just as much
masculine as feminine, so I would definitely describe the new project as me
wrestling with those two sides."
Song titles on the album, released under the name Auf Der
Maur, include 'Appetite Running',
'Beastfest' and 'Real, A Lie'.
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