Music Review

Painkillers (1993)

Babes in Toyland
Reviewed by Charles Aaron | Jul 23, 1993
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Babes in Toyland; Genre: Rock

On Painkillers, a five-song EP (plus 32 minutes of live screech), this all-female Minneapolis thrash-metal trio rails poetically against the notion that aggressive women have a ''sickness'' in need of a male cure. The Babes singer-guitarist Kat Bjelland scat-jabbers her point when necessary (''Angel Hair'') and busts out laughing when she feels like it.A-

Originally posted Jul 27, 2009 Published in issue #180 Jul 23, 1993 Order article reprints