Artists starting with Corin Tucker Band

Corin Tucker Band, “1000 Years” (Kill Rock Stars, 2010)
Best known as the one in Sleater-Kinney with That Voice, this is Tucker’s first solo album. S-K’s run from Call The Doctor to Dig Me Out to Hot Rock is up there with the very, very greatest rock and roll of the whole post-Pistols era, so it was inevitable that their subsequent work, excellent though it was, paled by comparison. Freed of that burden, Tucker sounds more comfortable here than she has since the ‘90s, cutting loose with a fine batch of songs that swing loose and powerful. And while she’s more relaxed (than with S-K), her music still burns as hot as ever at its heart.
Highlights: 2 (angular and spacy but hard-driving), 6 (slow and gorgeous), and especially 7, a passionate rock and roll blaster with what might be Tucker’s warmest, most resonant vocal pyrotechnics yet.