Gato Negro | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 12, 1996 | |||
Recorded | October 1995 | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 35:00 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
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Singles from Gato Negro | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Alternative Press | [5] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [6] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | C[8] |
Gato Negro (Spanish: "Black Cat") is the second and final studio album by American rock band 7 Year Bitch, released on March 12, 1996. It was the band's only album released through Atlantic Records, after signing to the label in 1994.[9][10]
The record spawned three singles: "The History of My Future", "24,900 Miles Per Hour" and "Miss Understood",[11] as well as a video for "24,900 Miles Per Hour".
Gato Negro received mixed reviews from critics. Eric Bensel of Alternative Press wrote that although while the album was "at times a generic grunge [sic] fronted by the predictable riot grrrl snarl", it provided a "refreshing foil to the testosterone-laden cock-rock that has dominated AOR radio stations for the past 25 years".[5] Entertainment Weekly critic Mike Flatherty dismissed the album as "a humorless clutch of tough-grrrl conventions and abrasive bluster".[8] In her review of Live at Moe (2016), Pitchfork's Estelle Tang called Gato Negro "simultaneously less scrappy and less compelling" than the band's previous albums.[12] In a positive review for Trouser Press, Grant Alden called the album 7 Year Bitch's "most varied, accomplished and coherent outing", praising its instrumentation.[13]
Adapted from liner notes.[14]
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