Pitchfork

The joke here, of course, being that L7 will never record an album that goes triple platinum (or even gold, for that matter) and they will never be beautiful. Here's why.

Almost ten years ago, they practically invented the riot grrl: a girl so hardcore that she offends everybody. So far, I like this girl. Well, the problem is that mainstream America doesn't. This music is far too intimidating for your high school's football players (if it were made by four guys with green hair, it'd sell millions of copies overnight) and too loud and crashy for the geeks. That means the only crowd L7 does well with is other riot grrls, and that's a dying breed since the grrls realized even their old friends didn't like them anymore.

Truth be told, The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum, albeit more than a little white-trashy ("Oh Shit / I lost my ID / Hook up the Jagermeister IV") is a pretty fine record. Ladies don't rock like this anymore, and that's just plain sad.